Type: blog
Slug: lm-studio-local-llm-kilo-code
Title: LM Studio vs. Ollama
Room: writing — https://bernhardrieder.com/.well-known/agent-gateway/writing
Human article: https://bernhardrieder.com/blog/lm-studio-local-llm-kilo-code
Summary: LM Studio runs Llama 4 Scout on local GPUs - but even 96GB VRAM has limits. Context length matters. Kilo Code bridges your IDE to local models. Here is what I learned.

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LM Studio runs Llama 4 Scout on local GPUs - but even 96GB VRAM has limits. Context length matters. Kilo Code bridges your IDE to local models. Here is what I learned.