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      "slug": "anythingllm",
      "name": "AnythingLLM",
      "vendor": "Mintplex Labs",
      "vendorUrl": "https://anythingllm.com",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "local-ai",
      "summary": "Open-source app for chatting with documents using local or hosted models. Available as a desktop app or a self-hosted server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anythingllm",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anythingllm.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anythingllm.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/anythingllm.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm",
      "license": "MIT (server, document collector, frontend and Docker image). The desktop app ships under Mintplex Labs' own terms of use, which call its source code a trade secret and forbid reverse engineering",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "mintplexlabs/anythingllm"
        },
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "ghcr.io/mintplex-labs/anything-llm"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "The developer API under /api/v1 takes a key in `Authorization: Bearer`. An admin creates keys in the UI. SECURITY.md says each key has full, unrestricted access to the whole /v1 surface, equivalent to admin, and the database stores keys in plain text with no scopes or expiry. A key is revoked by deleting it. The instance itself runs with no password, one password or multi-user accounts, chosen at onboarding, and the desktop backend listens on 127.0.0.1:3001 unless network discovery is switched on.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "The desktop app and the Docker server are free, with no account. AnythingLLM Cloud, a private managed instance on AWS, costs $50 a month (Basic, bring your own model key) or $99 a month (Pro, 72-hour support SLA), with Enterprise on request. The pricing page shows no trial or free tier for Cloud, and checkout goes through my.mintplexlabs.com (checked 2026-10-03).",
      "priceSummary": "$50 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page or the source (checked 2026-10-03).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 66600,
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      },
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      "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/master/server/swagger/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.local",
        "memory.search",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "memory.user",
        "inference.open-weights"
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      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "local",
        "self-hosted",
        "hosted",
        "desktop",
        "docker",
        "openapi",
        "openai-compatible",
        "rag",
        "mcp-client",
        "freemium",
        "telemetry-default-on"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
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        "score": 53.6,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 330,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 78,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 67,
          "schema": 57,
          "security": 38,
          "transparency": 63
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-03"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-04-15 to 2026-05-21. Ten advisories published in the last year, all fixed, among them CVE-2026-48116 (GHSA-6hrp-7mw6-8v59, CVSS 7.5), code execution through a `--pre` argument passed to ripgrep by the filesystem-search-files agent skill in 1.12.1 and earlier, fixed on 20 May 2026 (commit 94ed62d3) and published on 21 May, and GHSA-4q6m-qh3w-9gf5 (15 April 2026), a DOM XSS in chart rendering that prompt injection could trigger. Fixed and published inside six months, so a small deduction, -3. https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/security/advisories/GHSA-6hrp-7mw6-8v59; https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/security/advisories"
        ],
        "verdict": "MIT server with desktop builds for macOS, Windows and Linux and Docker images for amd64 and arm64. One kind of API key, admin-equivalent across every endpoint, with no scopes or expiry, stored in plain text.",
        "strengths": [
          "MIT server with desktop builds for macOS, Windows and Linux and Docker images for amd64 and arm64",
          "63 developer API operations in OpenAPI 3.0, served at /api/docs on every instance",
          "OpenAI-compatible chat, embeddings and model endpoints that treat each workspace as a model",
          "38 model providers, including Ollama, LM Studio and a built-in local engine on the desktop, and LanceDB on disk by default",
          "v1.17.0 on 1 October 2026, four releases in 90 days, with advisories fixed and published"
        ],
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          "One kind of API key, admin-equivalent across every endpoint, with no scopes or expiry, stored in plain text",
          "Ten security advisories between March and July 2026, one a high-severity code execution in an agent skill",
          "Telemetry on by default, and the source sends 33 event types where the README lists five kinds",
          "Request bodies in the OpenAPI file are examples, not typed schemas, and there's no llms.txt",
          "Backend tests run only on pull requests, on Node 18, which reached end of life in April 2025"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call http://localhost:3001/api/v1 with `Authorization: Bearer` and a key the owner created in the UI",
          "Send `mode: query` to `/v1/workspace/{slug}/chat` to answer only from the workspace's documents",
          "Treat the key as admin. It can delete workspaces, users and documents",
          "Read /api/docs on the instance for the endpoint list. Request bodies there are examples, not schemas",
          "Pass a `sessionId` with each chat to keep your conversation apart from other API callers"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 53.6
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 46,
          "maintenance": 78,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 67,
          "schema": 57,
          "security": 38,
          "transparency": 58
        },
        "provenanceScore": 67
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "export STORAGE_LOCATION=$HOME/anythingllm \u0026\u0026 \\\nmkdir -p $STORAGE_LOCATION \u0026\u0026 \\\ntouch \"$STORAGE_LOCATION/.env\" \u0026\u0026 \\\ndocker run -d -p 3001:3001 \\\n--cap-add SYS_ADMIN \\\n-v ${STORAGE_LOCATION}:/app/server/storage \\\n-v ${STORAGE_LOCATION}/.env:/app/server/.env \\\n-e STORAGE_DIR=\"/app/server/storage\" \\\nmintplexlabs/anythingllm:latest"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/anythingllm"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "AnythingLLM Cloud Basic",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 50,
          "note": "Private instance, bring your own model key"
        },
        {
          "item": "AnythingLLM Cloud Pro",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 99,
          "note": "Private instance, 72-hour support SLA"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Mintplex Labs, Inc.",
        "domain": "anythingllm.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2023-06-08",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://docs.anythingllm.com/installation-desktop/terms",
        "privacy": "https://docs.anythingllm.com/installation-desktop/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-03",
        "notes": [
          "The desktop privacy policy (effective 14 July 2025) names Mintplex Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, at 1950 W Corporate Way Ste. 25340, Anaheim, CA 92801.",
          "There's no shared hosted endpoint. Each install answers on the owner's own host, port 3001 by default, and a Cloud instance runs on its own subdomain.",
          "anythingllm.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. SECURITY.md takes reports only through GitHub security advisories.",
          "RDAP for anythingllm.com gives a registration date of 2023-06-08. Self-hosted terms are in TERMS_SELF_HOSTED.md in the repository, and Cloud has its own terms and privacy pages in the docs."
        ],
        "score": 67
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/anythingllm.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "anythingllm",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm",
            "version": "v1.17.0",
            "released": "2026-10-01",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:20:25.081085298Z"
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        ],
        "githubStars": 66708,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://anythingllm.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:04.556618476Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "anythingllm.com",
          "registered": "2023-06-08",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/anythingllm.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:56.741891994Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.anythingllm.com/installation-desktop/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:09.350190924Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "d60b6740a520"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://docs.anythingllm.com/installation-desktop/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:11.412362007Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "fbedb30fe013"
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        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T16:20:25.081085298Z"
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    "b": {
      "slug": "lm-studio",
      "name": "LM Studio",
      "vendor": "Element Labs, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://lmstudio.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "local-ai",
      "summary": "Desktop app and headless daemon from Element Labs for running open-weight models on the owner's machine with llama.cpp and MLX, plus the Splash engine on Apple silicon M3 or newer since 0.4.25.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lm-studio",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lm-studio.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lm-studio.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lm-studio.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-js",
      "license": "Proprietary. The app and llmster are free for personal and internal business use under LM Studio's terms (Element Labs, Inc., effective 23 August 2026), with no source published. The `lms` CLI and the TypeScript and Python SDKs are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@lmstudio/sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "lmstudio"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "No authentication by default. With Require Authentication on (Developer page, Server Settings, LM Studio 0.4.0 or later), every request needs an API token (`sk-lm-` prefix) as `Authorization: Bearer`, or `x-api-key` on the Anthropic-compatible endpoint. Tokens are named, carry permissions picked at creation, are shown once and can be edited or deleted. Calling the owner's mcp.json servers through the API needs authentication on. The server binds to localhost unless Serve on Local Network is on or `lms server start --bind 0.0.0.0` is used.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "The LM Studio app, llmster and the local server are free for personal and work use with no account or card (free at work since 8 July 2025, and the terms of 23 August 2026 cover internal business use). Element Labs sells cloud model plans for Bionic, its separate agent app, at $20 (Bionic+) and $100 (Pro) a month, which local use of LM Studio doesn't need (checked 2026-10-03).",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page or the SDK source (checked 2026-10-03).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": 69495,
        "pypiWeekly": 15195,
        "asOf": "2026-10-03"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://lmstudio.ai/docs/developer",
      "llmsTxt": "https://lmstudio.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "inference.local",
        "inference.open-weights",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "embed.text"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "local",
        "closed-source",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "account-free",
        "openai-compatible",
        "llms-txt",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "streaming",
        "pre-1.0"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-19",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 57.9,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 287,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 69,
          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 34,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 59,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-03"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "OpenAI-compatible chat completions, responses, completions and embeddings, Anthropic-compatible /v1/messages and a native /api/v1, all on one port. Authentication is off by default, so any local process can call the server.",
        "strengths": [
          "OpenAI-compatible chat completions, responses, completions and embeddings, Anthropic-compatible /v1/messages and a native /api/v1, all on one port",
          "llmster, a headless daemon installed with one command, with a documented systemd setup for Linux servers",
          "Named API tokens with permissions, and API access to MCP servers behind two switches, one of which also needs authentication on",
          "Stateful chats with `previous_response_id`, `allowed_tools` per MCP integration and typed error objects",
          "Seven releases in the 90 days to 3 October 2026, each with dated notes"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Authentication is off by default, so any local process can call the server",
          "Closed-source app and daemon with no public CI or test suite",
          "The Python SDK's last stable release (1.5.0, 22 August 2025) can't send API tokens, and the docs name an environment variable no release reads",
          "No OpenAPI file, and the llms.txt we read covers the 0.3 app, not the v1 REST API, tokens, llmster or MCP",
          "1.7k open issues in the public bug tracker"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `Authorization: Bearer $LM_API_TOKEN` when the owner gives you a token. With Require Authentication on, every request needs it",
          "Pass `previous_response_id` to /api/v1/chat instead of resending the history, and `store: false` for one-off calls",
          "List models with `GET /api/v1/models` before naming one. A named model that's downloaded loads just in time",
          "Install the Python SDK pre-release (1.6.0b1) and pass `api_token` directly. It reads `LMSTUDIO_API_TOKEN`, not the `LM_API_TOKEN` the docs name",
          "Set `allowed_tools` on every MCP integration. Without it the model sees every tool on the server"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 57.9
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 69,
          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 34,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 59,
          "transparency": 55
        },
        "provenanceScore": 67
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://lmstudio.ai/install.sh | bash   # llmster, the headless daemon. Windows: irm https://lmstudio.ai/install.ps1 | iex",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:1234/api/v1/chat \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $LM_API_TOKEN\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\": \"ibm/granite-4-micro\", \"input\": \"Write a short haiku about sunrise.\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:1234\nexport ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=lmstudio\nexport CLAUDE_CODE_ATTRIBUTION_HEADER=0\nclaude --model openai/gpt-oss-20b"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.local",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/lm-studio"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Element Labs, Inc.",
        "domain": "lmstudio.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2023-05-03",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://lmstudio.ai/app-terms",
        "privacy": "https://lmstudio.ai/app-privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://lmstudio.ai/changelog/lmstudio",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-03",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (effective 23 August 2026) and the privacy policy (effective June 2026) name Element Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation at 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington.",
          "There's no hosted endpoint. The server answers on the owner's machine, at localhost:1234 by default.",
          "lmstudio.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns a Hub web page rather than a security.txt, and we found no security page or SECURITY.md in the public repositories.",
          "RDAP for lmstudio.ai gives a registration date of 2023-05-03.",
          "lmstudio.ai/changelog opens on Bionic, the separate agent app. LM Studio's releases are at /changelog/lmstudio."
        ],
        "score": 67
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lm-studio.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "lm-studio",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@lmstudio/sdk",
            "version": "2.0.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:31:57.979163993Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "lmstudio",
            "version": "1.5.0",
            "released": "2025-08-22",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:32:00.101781677Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 1786,
        "npmWeekly": 61084,
        "pypiWeekly": 14795,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://lmstudio.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:43.57855822Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://lmstudio.ai/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.079569518Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "lmstudio.ai",
          "registered": "2023-05-03",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/lmstudio.ai",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:08:39.466212979Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://lmstudio.ai/changelog/lmstudio",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:43.124111793Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "861d11ad807a"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://lmstudio.ai/app-privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:38.584198725Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "2be7166b913e"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://lmstudio.ai/app-terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:45:40.97136456Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "90222f50fb4b"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T16:32:00.291286961Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "LM Studio has a score of 57.9 (C) against AnythingLLM's 53.6 (D). Both do local inference. The largest gap is reliability, 33 points."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lm-studio.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lm-studio.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick AnythingLLM for reliability (+33), maintenance \u0026 community (+6).\n\nPick LM Studio for schema \u0026 documentation (+7), agent ergonomics (+23), security \u0026 auth (+21).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AnythingLLM | LM Studio | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 34 | AnythingLLM +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 64 | LM Studio +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 46 | 69 | LM Studio +23 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 38 | 59 | LM Studio +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 72 | AnythingLLM +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 61 | AnythingLLM +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.6 · D** | **57.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AnythingLLM | LM Studio |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Mintplex Labs | Element Labs, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (server, document collector, frontend and Docker image). The desktop app ships under Mintplex Labs' own terms of use, which call its source code a trade secret and forbid reverse engineering | Proprietary. The app and llmster are free for personal and internal business use under LM Studio's terms (Element Labs, Inc., effective 23 August 2026), with no source published. The `lms` CLI and the TypeScript and Python SDKs are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-19 |\n| Popularity | 67k stars | 69k npm/wk, 15k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AnythingLLM.** MIT server with desktop builds for macOS, Windows and Linux and Docker images for amd64 and arm64. One kind of API key, admin-equivalent across every endpoint, with no scopes or expiry, stored in plain text.\n\n**LM Studio.** OpenAI-compatible chat completions, responses, completions and embeddings, Anthropic-compatible /v1/messages and a native /api/v1, all on one port. Authentication is off by default, so any local process can call the server.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AnythingLLM\n\n1. Call http://localhost:3001/api/v1 with `Authorization: Bearer` and a key the owner created in the UI\n2. Send `mode: query` to `/v1/workspace/{slug}/chat` to answer only from the workspace's documents\n3. Treat the key as admin. It can delete workspaces, users and documents\n4. Read /api/docs on the instance for the endpoint list. Request bodies there are examples, not schemas\n5. Pass a `sessionId` with each chat to keep your conversation apart from other API callers\n\n### LM Studio\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer $LM_API_TOKEN` when the owner gives you a token. With Require Authentication on, every request needs it\n2. Pass `previous_response_id` to /api/v1/chat instead of resending the history, and `store: false` for one-off calls\n3. List models with `GET /api/v1/models` before naming one. A named model that's downloaded loads just in time\n4. Install the Python SDK pre-release (1.6.0b1) and pass `api_token` directly. It reads `LMSTUDIO_API_TOKEN`, not the `LM_API_TOKEN` the docs name\n5. Set `allowed_tools` on every MCP integration. Without it the model sees every tool on the server\n\n## Other comparisons with AnythingLLM or LM Studio\n\n- [AnythingLLM vs GPT4All](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-gpt4all.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs Jan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-jan.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs Khoj](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-khoj.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs llama.cpp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-llama-cpp.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-localai.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-ollama.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-screenpipe.md)\n- [GPT4All vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt4all-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [Jan vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jan-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [Khoj vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/khoj-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [llama.cpp vs LM Studio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llama-cpp-vs-lm-studio.md)\n- [LM Studio vs LocalAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lm-studio-vs-localai.md)\n- [LM Studio vs Ollama](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lm-studio-vs-ollama.md)\n- [LM Studio vs Open WebUI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lm-studio-vs-open-webui.md)\n- [LM Studio vs screenpipe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lm-studio-vs-screenpipe.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-underdog.md)\n- [LM Studio vs Underdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lm-studio-vs-underdog.md)\n- [AnythingLLM vs LocalGhost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-localghost.md)\n",
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