Open-source alternative  ·  AI Local Inference

Replace LM Studio with Ollama.

Run large language models locally with a single command. Supports Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, and hundreds more. OpenAI-compatible API. Completely free.

You'd keep~R66 600 to ~R177 600/year

Current licence  ·  AI Local Inference

LM Studio

~R66 600 – ~R177 600/yr

10-user estimate

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Ollama

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R177 600/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. LM Studio's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Developer (Commercial)

R66 600/yr

R555/user/month

With Ollama

Keep R66 600/yr

Business

R177 600/yr

R1 480/user/month

With Ollama

Keep R177 600/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

LM Studio grows around 10% per year on average. Ollama hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR79kR158kR237kR315kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R287kR18k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.27M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

LM StudioOllama, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.