---
title: "LM Studio pricing, platforms and integrations"
description: "Desktop app for downloading and running local LLMs offline, with the Bionic agent for coding, documents and computer control using local or cloud open models."
canonical_url: "https://whichcoding.tools/tools/lm-studio"
---
# LM Studio

> Desktop app for downloading and running local LLMs offline, with the Bionic agent for coding, documents and computer control using local or cloud open models.

- **Layer**: Desktop app
- **Vendor**: Element Labs, Inc.
- **Platforms**: macOS, Windows, Linux
- **License**: Proprietary
- **Pricing**: Free tier
- **Status**: Active
- **JSON**: /api/v1/tools/lm-studio.json

## Links

- [Website](https://lmstudio.ai)
- [Pricing](https://lmstudio.ai/pricing)
- [Docs](https://lmstudio.ai/docs)
- [Changelog](https://lmstudio.ai/changelog)
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/lmstudio)
- [X](https://x.com/lmstudio)

## Pricing

| Plan | Price | Included | Beyond that | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free (individual) | Free | — | — | Bionic Agent, run local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX entirely offline; State-of-the-art offline voice transcription; Limited web search; LM Link for up to 5 devices |
| Bionic+ (individual) | $20/mo (per user) | — | Credit packs. Cloud credits cover usage beyond the plan's included allowance. | US-hosted open source models, Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4 Flash and more, with Zero Data Retention; Discounted bulk tokens; Web search and page extraction |
| Pro (individual) | $100/mo (per user) | — | Credit packs. Cloud credits cover usage beyond the plan's included allowance. | 5x usage limits; Discounted bulk tokens; Early access to new features |
| Enterprise and Teams (enterprise) | Contact sales | — | — | Deploy Bionic in LM Studio's Zero Data Retention cloud, on your own infrastructure, or on edge devices; Centralized billing for teams using inference credits, subscription plans for teams coming soon |

LM Studio's desktop app has no license fee. Cloud credits cover usage beyond the allowance included with a paid plan.

Source: [lmstudio.ai/pricing](https://lmstudio.ai/pricing), verified 2026-10-06.

## Models

- **Providers**: DeepSeek, Moonshot, Zhipu
- **Bring your own key**: No BYOK
- **Local models**: Yes

Runs local GGUF and MLX models fully offline through llama.cpp and MLX. LM Studio's cloud offers optional pay-per-token access to hosted open models such as DeepSeek, GLM and Kimi with Zero Data Retention. The local server also exposes OpenAI and Anthropic compatible endpoints.

## Features

- **Parallel agents**: Several agents running at once
- **MCP client**: Connects to MCP servers

## Install

- **download**: [lmstudio.ai/download](https://lmstudio.ai/download)
- **curl**: `curl -fsSL https://lmstudio.ai/install.sh | bash`
- **npm**: `npm install @lmstudio/sdk`
- **pip**: `pip install lmstudio`

## License

- **SPDX**: Proprietary
- **Kind**: Proprietary

The app is proprietary under its own App Terms of Service, free for personal and commercial use. The companion lms CLI is developed separately under the MIT license.

## Sources

Every fact above points at a vendor page and the date someone last checked it.

| Source | Covers | Verified |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [lmstudio.ai/pricing](https://lmstudio.ai/pricing) | pricing | 2026-10-06 |
| [lmstudio.ai/enterprise](https://lmstudio.ai/enterprise) | general | 2026-10-06 |
| [lmstudio.ai/docs/app](https://lmstudio.ai/docs/app) | platforms, general | 2026-08-26 |
| [lmstudio.ai/docs/app/mcp](https://lmstudio.ai/docs/app/mcp) | features | 2026-08-26 |
| [lmstudio.ai/docs/bionic/projects-and-sessions](https://lmstudio.ai/docs/bionic/projects-and-sessions) | features | 2026-08-26 |
| [lmstudio.ai/docs/developer](https://lmstudio.ai/docs/developer) | models, general | 2026-08-26 |
| [beta.lmstudio.ai/app-terms](https://beta.lmstudio.ai/app-terms) | license | 2026-08-26 |

Source data: [content/tools/lm-studio.yml](https://github.com/benjamincanac/whichcodingtools/blob/main/content/tools/lm-studio.yml)

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