LM Studio vs Augment Code vs Claude Code vs Ellipsis

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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LM Studio
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Augment Code
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Claude Code
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Ellipsis
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool LM Studio
lmstudio.ai
LM Studio is a desktop application for running large language models on your own computer, and its Bionic release adds an agent for work and code.
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Competitor Augment Code
augmentcode.com
Augment Code is an agentic software development company whose Cosmos platform runs software agents across the development lifecycle.
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Competitor Claude Code
claude.com
Every plan tier hits usage limits
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Competitor Ellipsis
ellipsis.dev
Ellipsis is a managed cloud platform for running coding agents.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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123.5Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 6.8%
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6-month growth
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+106.6%
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Global rank web
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#434
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Avg. last 3 months
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125.2M
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Bounce rate lower is better
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64%
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Pages / visit
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2.2
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Visit duration
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2m 36s
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● Direct 82% · ● Referral 15%
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LM StudioAugment CodeClaude CodeEllipsis
035M69.9M104.9M139.9MClaude Code · 19.2MClaude Code · 19.5MClaude Code · 35.8MClaude Code · 59.8MClaude Code · 139.9MClaude Code · 133.1MClaude Code · 119.5MClaude Code · 132.6MClaude Code · 123.5M10M100M1BClaude Code · 19.2MClaude Code · 19.5MClaude Code · 35.8MClaude Code · 59.8MClaude Code · 139.9MClaude Code · 133.1MClaude Code · 119.5MClaude Code · 132.6MClaude Code · 123.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
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Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$20per month
$17per month · free tier available
$5,000per month
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Plans
Free FreeBionic+ $20/moPro $100/mo
Standard $20/moBusiness $100/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreePro $17/moMax 5x $100/moMax 20x Custom/mo+2 more
Managed SaaS Usage-basedYour AWS Account Usage-based
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioCodeText
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
CodeDocumentsSlidesText
Code
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Skill level
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Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant+2 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+2 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Agents
Coding
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Local AI
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Code analysis
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Code explanations
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Documents
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Large language models
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Testing
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Agent management
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Development
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Models
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