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MOpen-weight AI models, chat and coding agent you can run on your own infrastructure
Free, from $14.99/mo
LM Studio vs Vosk
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose LM Studio if…
- you're in its core audience: developers, privacy-conscious professionals
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Choose Vosk if…
- you want open source you can self-host or audit
- you work on Linux, Android, iOS
- you're in its core audience: software developers, embedded and iot engineers
Side by side
Feature LM Studio Vosk
Pricing modelFreemiumFree
Starting price$20/moFree
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentNo—
Data retentionPrompts and responses not retained; cloud requests processed transiently (Zero Data Retention)—
Security and complianceGDPR—
Updates, last 90 days7—
Works fully offline—
Optional cloud models—
OpenAI-compatible API—
Apple Silicon acceleration—
Team admin / SSO—
Platforms—Linux, Android, iOS, API, Self-hosted
CategoryLocal & Open ModelsTranscription
CompanyElement Labs, Inc.Alpha Cephei
Based inUnited States—
Founded——
Part of——
Key features
L LM Studio
- Bionic agent creates and edits documents, slides and PDFs
- Coding, automation and computer control tasks
- In-app download of local LLMs
- Runtime powered by MLX and llama.cpp
- Real-time on-device voice transcription in multiple languages
- Optional US-hosted open frontier models with zero data retention
- LM Link connects up to 5 devices on Free
- JavaScript and Python SDKs plus the lms CLI
V Vosk
- Fully offline speech recognition
- Streaming API for real-time transcription
- Speaker identification
- Quick vocabulary reconfiguration
- Compact models of about 50 MB per language
- Larger server models available
- Bindings for Python, Java, C#, JavaScript and more
- Runs on Raspberry Pi, Android and iOS
Plans and prices
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LM Studio
Free$0
Bionic+$20 USD/month
Pro$100 USD/month
Vosk
Open sourceFree
Strengths and limitations
LM Studio
- Free plan includes the agent, local models and offline transcription
- Voice data is processed locally
- Cloud services are stated to use Zero Data Retention
- SDKs for JavaScript and Python plus a CLI
- Hosted frontier models require a paid plan starting at $20/month
- Free plan has only limited web search
- Team subscription plans are not yet available
Vosk
- Open source under the Apache-2.0 license
- Works fully offline, including on lightweight devices
- Supports 20+ languages and dialects
- Small models of about 50 MB each
- A developer toolkit, with no ready-made end-user app
- No commercial plans or pricing published on the site
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