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Element Labs, Inc. · Desktop app

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LM Studio is a desktop application from Element Labs for downloading and running open language models locally on macOS, Windows and Linux. Since version 0.3.17 it can act as an MCP host for servers running locally or remotely. They are listed in an mcp.json file that follows Cursor's layout, edited inside the app or added through a deeplink button.

Runs on
macOS, Windows, Linux source
Kind
Desktop app source
Price
Free plan source
Source code
Not published
Connects to
Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP), Remote (SSE) source
Publisher
Element Labs, Inc. source

How to add a server to LM Studio

  1. Find the server you want on plug.directory and open its page.
  2. In its install block, pick LM Studio. The block shows the config and where it goes.
  3. Put the config in mcp.json (Program › Install › Edit mcp.json). Then check the server's tools in LM Studio, as its docs describe.

For example, Azure MCP Server, one of the top ranked servers that work in LM Studio, goes in mcp.json (Program › Install › Edit mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azure": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@azure/[email protected]", "server", "start"]
    }
  }
}

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How to add an MCP server to LM Studio: local and remote

Matches the official docs The config follows LM Studio's MCP docs, read on 2026-10-31.

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Facts read from Element Labs, Inc.'s own pages on 2026-10-31; the description is ours, from its site. Every client