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LM Studio

Application

Desktop application for downloading and running open models on a personal machine.

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HeadquartersNew York, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• LM Studio Application Sold on its own

  Desktop app for discovering, downloading and running open models on a personal machine, with a local OpenAI-compatible server other apps can call.

Inside LM Studio

• LM Studio Bionic AI agent Included with the parent

  LM Studio's agent for open models, run locally for creative, knowledge and coding work, with optional US-hosted open models on the paid tiers.

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No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

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VVercelPrivate · $9.3BLM Studio and Vercel AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.4 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGitLabPublic · $8.3BLM Studio and GitLab Duo Agent Platform Self-Hosted do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.4 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCursorAcquired ($60B deal)LM Studio Bionic and Cloud Agents do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded; Cursor is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBByteDancePrivateLM Studio and Doubao (豆包) both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TLM Studio and Foundry Models do comparable work on model hosting; LM Studio's scale not recorded.4 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRReplicatePrivateLM Studio and Replicate do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TLM Studio and Alexa+ both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; LM Studio's scale not recorded.4 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCodeRabbitPrivate · $1.5BLM Studio Bionic and CodeRabbit Agent for Slack do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOllamaPrivate · $88M raisedLM Studio and Ollama Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships infrastructure service and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareYYandexPublicLM Studio and Yandex DataSphere do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.4 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCClinePrivate · $32M raisedLM Studio Bionic and Cline do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCognitionPrivate · $26BLM Studio Bionic and Devin CLI do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenCodePrivateLM Studio Bionic and OpenCode do comparable work on agentic coding; scale not recorded for either.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePAPoolside AIPrivate · $620M raisedLM Studio Bionic and poolside do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBridgeMindPrivateLM Studio Bionic and BridgeMind do comparable work on agentic coding; scale not recorded for either.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGensparkPrivate · $645M raisedLM Studio Bionic and GenTerminal do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSAPPublic · $256.3BLM Studio and EU AI Cloud both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGitarAcquiredLM Studio Bionic and Gitar do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded; Gitar is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareUUiPathPublic · $7.2BLM Studio Bionic and UiPath Test Cloud do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMModularAcquired ($3.1B deal)LM Studio and Modular Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; Modular is acquired, with no independent scale; ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAHAll Hands AIPrivate · $23.8M raisedLM Studio Bionic and OpenHands do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAFAmp Frontier CorporationPrivateLM Studio Bionic and Amp do comparable work on agentic coding; scale not recorded for either.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareACAugment CodePrivateLM Studio Bionic and Cosmos do comparable work on agentic coding; scale not recorded for either.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFactoryPrivate · $5BLM Studio Bionic and Factory Droids do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareKCKilo CodeAcquiredLM Studio Bionic and Kilo Code do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded; Kilo Code is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRoomotePrivateLM Studio Bionic and Roomote do comparable work on agentic coding; scale not recorded for either.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAtlassianPublic · $48.2BLM Studio Bionic and Rovo Dev do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareJJetBrainsPrivateLM Studio Bionic and Junie do comparable work on agentic coding; scale not recorded for either.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBABlackbox AIPrivateLM Studio and Blackbox AI both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLovablePrivate · $13.3BLM Studio and Lovable Cloud do comparable work on model hosting; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships platform rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMMiniMaxPublic · $12.6BLM Studio Bionic and MiniMax Agent do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRReplitPrivate · $9BLM Studio Bionic and Replit Agent 4 do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBasetenPrivate · $13BLM Studio and Baseten Model APIs do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships API service, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TLM Studio and Meta Model API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.4 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSServiceNowPublic · $130.1BLM Studio Bionic and Build Agent do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATogether AIPrivate · $8.3BLM Studio and Together Dedicated Container Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships API service, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVVMwareAcquiredLM Studio and VMware Cloud Foundation Private AI Services do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; VMware is acquired, with no independent scale; ships infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareMModalPrivate · $466M raisedLM Studio and Modal Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareRRunPodPrivateLM Studio and Runpod Hub do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNGNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BLM Studio and Nebius Token Factory do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHFHugging FacePrivate · $4.5BLM Studio and Hugging Face Hub do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMLMintplex LabsPrivateLM Studio and AnythingLLM both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCerencePublic · $384.9MLM Studio and Cerence Assistant both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSlackPrivateLM Studio Bionic and Slackbot both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.Shared product typeCompareEEmergentPrivate · $1.5BLM Studio Bionic and Emergent do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSStackBlitzPrivateLM Studio Bionic and Bolt.new do comparable work on agentic coding; scale not recorded for either; ships platform rather than the same layer.1 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareFAFireworks AIPrivate · $17.5BLM Studio and Fireworks Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships API service and model API rather than the same layer.3 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIIBMPublic · $216.6BLM Studio and IBM watsonx.ai both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCoherePrivate · $7BLM Studio and Model Vault do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrusoePrivate · $10BLM Studio and Crusoe Managed Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships API service, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareW&Weights & BiasesAcquiredLM Studio and W&B Serverless Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; Weights & Biases is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service, developer tool and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSonarPrivate · $4.7BLM Studio Bionic and SonarQube do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLambdaPrivate · $1.5B raisedLM Studio and Lambda Inference do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships infrastructure service and model API rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAnthropicPrivate · $965BLM Studio Bionic and Claude Cowork both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGreptilePrivateLM Studio Bionic and TREX do comparable work on agentic coding; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool rather than the same layer.1 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareHCHuawei CloudPrivateLM Studio and MaaS do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHuaweiPrivateLM Studio and MindIE do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and hardware rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDTDell TechnologiesPublic · $360.7BLM Studio and Dell Enterprise Hub do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships data service, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDDatabricksPrivate · $190BLM Studio and Databricks Model Serving do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAMDPublic · $785.1BLM Studio and AMD Enterprise AI Reference Stack do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships hardware, infrastructure service and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKEKakao EnterprisePrivateLM Studio and Kubeflow do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BLM Studio and ModelScope do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.4 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeComparePPerplexityPrivate · $20.4BLM Studio and Perplexity both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSuperhumanPrivateLM Studio Bionic and Superhuman Go both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNNVIDIAPublic · $5.1TLM Studio and NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton (Triton Inference Server) do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships hardware, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BLM Studio and Vanchin do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)LM Studio Bionic and Grok Build do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Private · $7.2BLM Studio and Glean Assistant both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareFFalPrivateLM Studio and fal Serverless do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDecartPrivate · $4BLM Studio and Cogito do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareQQualcommPublic · $174.9BLM Studio and Qualcomm AI Inference Suite do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships developer tool, hardware and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareZZ.ai (Zhipu AI)Public · $58.6BLM Studio and Zhipu Qingyan both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BLM Studio Bionic and Codex do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCivitaiPrivate · $5.1M raisedLM Studio and Civitai API do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.2 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TLM Studio and AI Mode in Google Search both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMoveworksAcquiredLM Studio and Moveworks Quick GPT both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; LM Studio's scale not recorded; Moveworks is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareEElasticPublic · $10.2BLM Studio and Elastic Inference Service do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSASarvam AIPrivate · $275M raisedLM Studio Bionic and Sarvam Coding Agents do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudPrivateLM Studio and ML expert Platform do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; scale not recorded for either.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLALiquid AIPrivateLM Studio and Liquid Apollo both serve buyers who need to use an everyday AI assistant; scale not recorded for either.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BLM Studio and Tencent Cloud HAI do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.4 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BLM Studio Bionic and Ori do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and model API rather than the same layer.3 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSSnowflakePublic · $116BLM Studio Bionic and Snowflake CoCo do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDatadogPublic · $84.9BLM Studio Bionic and Bits Code do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.2 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareDDeepSeekPrivate · $50BLM Studio Bionic and DeepSeek Harness do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareIImbuePrivate · $232M raisedLM Studio Bionic and Blueprint do comparable work on agentic coding; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAApplePublic · $4.6TLM Studio and Foundation Models framework both serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; LM Studio's scale not recorded.1 of 4 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareHHeliconeAcquiredLM Studio and Helicone AI Gateway do comparable work on model hosting; LM Studio's scale not recorded; Helicone is acquired, with no independent scale; ships API service and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 4 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare

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Description

Company disclosure · 17 Sep 2026

Own site. funding_total and valuation are bare: the company is venture-backed but discloses no amount anywhere it publishes. Delivery test (§1.1): the application exists to run models on the customer’s own machine; the model is the product surface.

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