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Use local LLMs like gpt-oss, Qwen3, Gemma3, DeepSeek

and many more, locally on your own hardware.

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Desktop AppDaemon

Download for Linux (x86_64)
0.4.12

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no-gui deployment

Deploy on servers, no GUI needed.

Introducing llmster. It's LM Studio's core, but without the GUI.

Deploy on Linux boxes, cloud servers, or even in CI.

Mac / Linux

curl -fsSL https://lmstudio.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows

irm https://lmstudio.ai/install.ps1 | iex

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Developer Resources

JS SDK

npm install @lmstudio/sdk

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Python SDK

pip install lmstudio

Docs: [lmstudio-python](/content/docs/python ""/index.html)

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