A closed desktop application that downloads and serves models on a workstation, with its command-line tool published separately as a public repository.
Our description, from the vendor's documentation, as of 2026-09-03.
Runs onThe places the vendor's own pages say the product runs: your machine, a container environment you run, or a cloud service the vendor runs. It is not a limit.
Models runWhere the vendor's own pages say the product's models run, not a limit: your machine, a container environment you run, the model company's cloud (servers of the company that makes or serves the model), or a cloud provider's model service. For a cloud, read the data and compliance lines of the company running it, linked by its name.
Same role (model server) at the same layer (Model hosting). Up to 4 others, in alphabetical order; nothing is ranked.
Product
Model on your machineThe tool can use a model running on your own computer, for example through Ollama, LM Studio, oMLX or llama.cpp.
Local and cloudA local model (on your machine or in a container environment you run) and a cloud model (in its model company's cloud or a cloud provider's model service) can both be used in the same session or setup.
Words in the cells: YesA page we read says so., PartlyA page says part of it, for example separate models per agent without saying the providers can differ., Via a proxyOnly with a proxy, or a local server that imitates a cloud provider's interface, in front of the tool., NoA page we read says the product does not support it., ClaimedA vendor page says so on a marketing or overview page, and we found no guide showing how to set it up., Not foundWe read pages for it and found nothing there. It says nothing about whether the product has the feature., n/aThe question does not apply to the product, for example because it is a model server and not a tool that connects to models., BlankNothing is published for it yet.
Data and compliance
Compliance: Not checked yetWe have not read a page of the right kind for this question yet.: no page that could answer it is recorded as read.
Data: Training use, default retention and zero-retention option stated on the maker's pageA sentence on the maker's page answers it for this product.; data residency not checked yetWe have not read a page of the right kind for this question yet..
Model and where it runs: Installed: a desktop application; model provider and where it can run not checked yetWe have not read a page of the right kind for this question yet..
Details: What the maker's own pages state, not a compliance determination, unverified after 2027-01-19.
What the maker's own pages said on the dates shown, not a compliance determination.
Also covers
The vendor's own pages present these as parts or modes of this product, so each is described here and has no page of its own.
lms
A CLI that ships with the LM Studio desktop application and drives it.
Our description, from the project's README, as of 2026-09-03.
Presented as part of this product on lmstudio.ai page, read 2026-10-22.
Its own site: GitHub page: lms (from our list of products; not read for these lines).
Data and compliance
Compliance: Set by whoever runs itThe answer belongs to whoever runs the software, because open-source software has no maker running it for you., for their own deployment.
Data: Set by whoever runs itThe answer belongs to whoever runs the software, because open-source software has no maker running it for you., with telemetry not checked yetWe have not read a page of the right kind for this question yet..
Model and where it runs: Run by its operator.
Details: What the project's own pages state, not a compliance determination.
What the maker's own pages said on the dates shown, not a compliance determination.
LM Studio home page(the product's own site, from our list of products; not read for these lines)
The readings behind this page
Our summary of the vendor's pages as of the dates shown on each line (2026-10-19 to 2026-10-24); confirm on the vendor's page.
Local models
LM Studio offers guidance on executing Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Phi, and additional LLMs on local systems. (lmstudio.ai page, read 2026-10-20)
LM Studio's app documentation points developers to a REST interface that runs locally, to endpoints compatible with the OpenAI format, and to its other developer tools. (lmstudio.ai page, read 2026-10-20)
Claude Code with a local server
LM Studio's blog post says version 0.4.1 introduced an endpoint at /v1/messages that follows Anthropic's format, and that local models can be used with Claude Code through it. (lmstudio.ai page, read 2026-10-21)Caveat: The Claude Code gateway page says Anthropic provides no support when a gateway sends Claude Code's requests to models that are not Claude (code.claude.com page, read 2026-10-21).
What a local model must meet
LM Studio's app documentation lists Apple silicon Macs, Windows PCs with x64 or ARM64 chips, and Linux PCs with x64 chips as generally supported, and points to its System Requirements page for details. (lmstudio.ai page, read 2026-10-19)
About the product
LM Studio's privacy page says it can run entirely on the user's device. (lmstudio.ai page, read 2026-10-24)
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