Tools
GPT4All vs LM Studio
GPT4All or LM Studio? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Choice of models, No code retained, API, Official SDKs, Search over your data
- Only LM Studio states: Command line, Self-hosted, Runs models for you
GPT4All
GPT4All runs open-source language models locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with local document chat and a Python SDK.
Plans
Free
Free
- No credit card required
- Limited agent requests
- Access to core Platform surfaces
Individual
- $20 / mo.
- Extended agent requests
- All product surfaces except Agent API
- Included AI usage with on-demand top-ups
- Solo workspace
Business
- $40 / user / mo.
- $20 included AI usage per seat
- Project delivery
- File integrations (Autodesk, Bentley, SharePoint, and more)
- Centralized team billing and administration
- Usage analytics and reporting
- Org-wide privacy controls
Enterprise
Price on request
- Pooled usage commits
- Invoice / PO billing
- SCIM seat management
- Audit logs and compliance reporting
- Multi-region data hosting (EU, AU, US, UK)
- Priority support and dedicated CSM
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “support for thousands of models” source
- No code retained — “GPT4All delivers private, high-performance AI right on your device—no cloud required, no data leaves your machine.” source
- API — “GPT4All API Server” source
- Official SDKs — “GPT4All Python SDK” source
- Search over your data — “Nomic's embedding models can bring information from your local documents and files into your chats.” source
Latest updates
- Nomic live on Autodesk Marketplace
Nomic is now live on Autodesk's Design & Make Marketplace as an official Autodesk AECO Partner.
- Nomic Supports Data Residency Across Europe, UK, US, and Australia
Nomic now supports customer data hosting in AWS regions across Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
- Announcing a new Nomic Platform
Nomic announced a new Nomic Platform.
LM Studio
Runs open language models locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with chat, a programmable API, and optional cloud inference.
Plans
Free
Free
- Run local LLMs on your machine
- Bionic Agent
- Run local LLMs using llama.cpp and MLX
- State-of-the-art offline voice transcription
- LM Link for up to 5 devices
- Limited web search
Bionic+
- $ 20 USD / month
- US-hosted open source models: Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4 Flash, and more
- Discounted bulk tokens
- Web search and page extraction
Pro
- $ 100 USD / month
- 5× usage limits
- Discounted bulk tokens
- Early access to new features
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “LM Studio CLI (lms)” source
- Choice of models — “Download the latest local LLMs directly within the app and use them for simple chats or advanced agentic tasks.” source
- Self-hosted — “llmster is LM Studio's headless daemon for servers, cloud instances, and CI.” source
- No code retained — “Zero data retention means your prompts and responses are not stored by the provider.” source
- API — “Experiment with LLMs on your computer. Chat interface and programmable API.” source
- Official SDKs — “lmstudio-js lmstudio-python” source
- Runs models for you — “Bionic cloud inference is US-hosted, with Zero data retention (ZDR)” source
- Search over your data — “Fixed a bug where RAG document retrieval could fail with some llama.cpp models” source
Latest updates
- Bionic 1.1.6 (1.1.6)
Canvas: board that both you and Bionic can edit; Markdown and source files in the in-app editor.
- Bionic 1.1.5 (1.1.5)
Qwen3.8 inference using a new engine: Splash (by Inco AI); prompt-processing status for models without percentage progress.
- Bionic 1.1.4 (1.1.4)
Introspection: agent can read messages earlier in its own history; supports @ referencing other sessions; tool-call argument streaming.