Alternatives to LM Studio

Ollama runs open-weight LLMs locally or in the cloud with one command and an OpenAI-compatible API.

Free open-source local AI server that runs LLMs, image, music, video, and 3D generation on your own Apple Silicon Mac.

Atomic Chat runs 1,000+ local LLMs offline on your own hardware — free, open-source, no account, no rate limits.

Enclave runs open-source AI models locally on your iPhone and Mac for private, fully offline AI chats.

Open-source JavaScript library that runs small LLMs like Llama 3.2 1B Instruct inside the browser via WebAssembly and WebGPU.

Free, open-source desktop app for running and fine-tuning RWKV RNN language models locally with effectively unbounded context.

A free, open-source desktop chat client that runs your own OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Google, and Replicate API keys from one window.

BitNet (bitnet.cpp) runs 1-bit and ternary BitNet b1.58 LLMs on CPU with lossless 1.58-bit inference — no GPU needed.

Free, open-source (MIT) desktop AI assistant that runs fully locally in Go, with browser automation, a real terminal, and multi-channel chat.

Open-source, local-first desktop AI client that connects to multiple model providers and keeps your data on your machine.

PrivateGPT is the open-source on-premise RAG framework for local document Q&A — 57k GitHub stars, zero cloud calls.

LocalAI is an MIT-licensed local AI runtime that serves text, voice, vision, image and agent workloads behind an OpenAI-compatible API.

Open-source browser extension that runs AI models locally via Ollama — chat, agent mode, and translations without sending data to the cloud.

Run any GGUF AI model locally on Android with zero network permissions

Free, MIT-licensed local LLM inference for Apple Silicon Macs, with SSD-backed prefix caching and native OpenAI and Anthropic APIs.

LFM2.5 is Liquid AI's open-weight foundation model family for on-device AI — native text, vision, and audio inference on CPU, GPU, or NPU.

Mesh LLM splits giant open-weight models across your own GPUs and serves them as one local OpenAI-compatible endpoint on localhost:9337.

Run Afterglow locally to turn exported QQ and WeChat chat logs into a searchable AI friend that answers in a real person's voice

A free desktop app that runs the Mistral 7B model on your own machine, so you can chat with spreadsheets and PDFs without uploading them anywhere.

Supertonic delivers free on-device text-to-speech you download and run locally via ONNX Runtime, with no per-character bill.

picoLLM is Picovoice's on-device LLM inference engine for running quantized language models locally on phones, embedded Linux, web, and microcontrollers.

Iris Android runs GGUF language models offline on your phone using llama.cpp — no server, no account, no data leaving the handset.

A headless React hooks library that runs Vicuna-13B chat entirely in your browser via WebGPU, with no prompt or completion leaving the client.

AI Playground runs one prompt across up to 3 AI models side by side, with your own API keys and data kept local.

OnnxStream runs ONNX inference by streaming model weights from disk, so large models fit in tiny RAM budgets.

Run local HuggingFace models or route prompts to Claude, GPT and Gemini with your own API keys

Free local RAG chatbot from NVIDIA that answers questions over your own files on an RTX Windows PC

On-device GenAI SDK for Qualcomm Snapdragon — now folded into Qualcomm AI Hub.

Run 15+ offline AI models on your phone for private, on-device chat, image, music and code generation.

Run Llama 3.1 405B and other huge language models at home over a BitTorrent-style decentralized inference network.