LM Studio

LM Studio is made by Element Labs, Inc. Its current flagship, Bionic, is an agent for open models that runs natively on a user's computer, with a focus on creativity, work, and code. The site offers app downloads, a model catalog, developer SDKs, and a CLI.

What It Is

LM Studio is a desktop application for downloading and running open large language models locally. Bionic is its agent layer: users work with it to create and edit documents, handle coding tasks and automations, and control the computer. Projects and chats are organized in a workspace, and in the homepage demo the agent reads repository files, edits them, and previews a website it builds.

Local Runtime and Models

Models can be downloaded within the app and used for simple chats or more advanced agentic tasks. The site says the LM Studio runtime is powered by MLX and llama.cpp under the hood. For more demanding tasks, Bionic can also run with frontier open models such as GLM 5.2, Kimi K3, and DeepSeek V4 Pro. LM Studio states that its cloud services are Zero Data Retention.

Voice Transcription

Bionic supports real-time voice transcription in multiple languages. According to the site, voice and audio data is processed locally and does not leave the device.

Developer Tooling and Teams

Developers can use lmstudio-js, lmstudio-python, and the lms CLI. An llms.txt file is published as well. The enterprise page describes Bionic as an agentic system for open frontier models, deployable on a US-based ZDR cloud, on a customer's own infrastructure, or on edge devices. It also mentions Team organizations.