LM Studio vs Together AI

Side-by-side comparison of LM Studio and Together AI: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	LM Studio Run AI models locally and privately on your own hardware Visit	Together AI The AI Native Cloud — full-stack platform for inference, compute, and model shaping Visit
Category	AI infrastructure	AI infrastructure
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	Technical
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Multiple (Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek, GPT-OSS, Apple MLX, etc.)	Open-source models (e.g., DeepSeek, Gemma, Llama, Qwen, GLM, MiniMax, Kimi)
Founded		2022
Headquarters	United States	San Francisco, USA
Key strengths	·Fully local & private — no data leaves your machine ·Supports a wide range of open-source LLMs (Qwen, Gemma, DeepSeek, MLX, etc.) ·OpenAI-compatible API for seamless developer integration ·Headless/server deployment via llmstер CLI tool	·Industry-leading inference speed (31%+ more TPS than next-fastest OSS engine) ·Full-stack platform: inference, compute, fine-tuning, storage, and sandboxes ·Cutting-edge in-house research (FlashAttention, ThunderKittens, ATLAS) ·Broad open-source model library with serverless and dedicated deployment options