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Best alternative to LM Studio?

Posted by PaytonAndHolyfield@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 17 comments

Read their TOS and plan to go commercial and was turned off.

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SmilingGen@reddit

Try Kolosal.ai. It is much lighter (only around 20MB for the app alone) and we've just launched the new server feature for developers. Its also open source!
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jaznip@reddit

Llamafile is pretty great: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
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dandv@reddit

It's great at *distributing* a particular LLM. If you want to run different LLMs locally, you should download just the weights and pass the `-m` flag to [use external weights](https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile?tab=readme-ov-file#using-llamafile-with-external-weights).
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noneabove1182@reddit

What do you mean sorry? Your plan to go commercial or theirs?
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PaytonAndHolyfield@reddit (OP)

Their plan. I am a person
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noneabove1182@reddit

Doesn't mean you won't be making commercial offerings I don't know what you mean by "plan to go commercial", the TOS as far as I can see only make reference to not using their product in a commercial way (I assume requiring licensing if you want to make a commercial product with it) Can you point me to what you're referring to?
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PaytonAndHolyfield@reddit (OP)

In their TOS it states they can sell your data on the future.
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noneabove1182@reddit

can you point that out for me? just something to ctrl F
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PaytonAndHolyfield@reddit (OP)

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noneabove1182@reddit

i don't see where it shows they can sell your data? can you point to it very explicitly? this is all about LM Studio owning *their* data and that you can't redistribute their code or software or likeness
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Remote_Fact_8803@reddit

Neither of those clauses say they can sell your data.
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isr_431@reddit

Open Webui, supports Ollama and OpenAI-compatible endpoints (including vLLM)
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AlexBefest@reddit

koboldCPP + OpenWebUI
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holchansg@reddit

llama.cpp
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bajaenergy@reddit

jan
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ChengliChengbao@reddit

I've been using Textgen WebUI for a long time now. It feels right at home alongside my A1111 install.
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tilted21@reddit

Msty, but they're closed source too. Jan is probably your next bet for easy built-in interface.
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