LM Studio supports any GGUF Llama, Mistral, Phi, Gemma, StarCoder, etc model on Hugging Face. LM Studio does not collect data or monitor your actions. Your data stays local on your machine. It's free for personal use. For business use, please get in touch.
With LM Studio, you can:
- Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline
- Chat with your local documents (new in 0.3)
- Use models through the in-app Chat UI or an OpenAI compatible local server
- Download any compatible model files from Hugging Face 🤗 repositories
- Discover new & noteworthy LLMs right inside the app's Discover page
What's New
0.4.16 - Release Notes
Build 2
- Lm Link no longer requires waitlisting
- Updated default context length to 8k tokens
Build 1
- Introducing Locally, LM Studio's mobile app. Available on iPhone and iPad.
- Use LM Link in Locally to take your largest LM Studio models on the go
- Security hardening
- [GGUF] Fix multi-GPU selection bugs affecting GPU ON/OFF and Priority Order on some CUDA 12, ROCm, and Vulkan setups
Previous Release Notes:
0.4.11 - Release Notes:
- Support for updated Gemma 4 chat template
Previous Release Notes:
LM Studio 0.4.0 highlights include:
- Deploy LM Studio's core on cloud servers, in CI, or anywhere without GUI.
- Parallel requests to the same model with continuous batching (instead of queueing).
- New stateful REST API endpoint: /v1/chat that allows using local MCPs.
- Refreshed application UI with chat export, split view, developer mode, and in-app docs.
Minimum requirements:
- M1/M2/M3/M4 Mac
- AWindows / Linux PC with a processor that supports AVX2.
Does LM Studio collect any data?
No. One of the main reasons for using a local LLM is privacy, and LM Studio is designed for that. Your data remains private and local to your machine.
Can I use LM Studio at work?
We'd love to enable you. Please fill out the LM Studio @ Work request form and we will get back to you as soon as we can.


