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  "slug": "lm-studio",
  "name": "LM Studio",
  "url": "https://lmstudio.ai",
  "cat": "ai",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "Local model desktop app",
  "price": "Desktop app free for local use. Optional pay-as-you-go cloud credits for frontier open models, e.g. DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.13/M input, Kimi K3 $3.00/M. Enterprise pricing on request.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A desktop GUI for running open models locally on Mac, Windows and Linux, built on llama.cpp and MLX. It includes a model browser, chat UI and a local OpenAI-compatible server, plus an <code>lms</code> CLI and Python and TypeScript SDKs for wiring apps to it.",
  "why": "The friendly version of local inference — it tells you which quantisation fits your RAM before you download 40GB. Good for comparing open models side by side, then serving the winner to your app on localhost.",
  "warn": "GUI-first design makes it awkward to run headless on a server — use Ollama or vLLM for that. Commercial use inside a company may require the separate enterprise licence.",
  "category": {
    "key": "ai",
    "name": "Model APIs, routers & observability",
    "desc": "Providers, gateways, inference hosts and eval layers — constantly conflated, listed separately here.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
  },
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    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://lmstudio.ai/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T23:43:12.623+00:00"
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}