DeepSeek leads LM Studio model ranking

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads modelgrep’s October 2026 ranking for LM Studio with an intelligence score of 32.5. GLM 5.3 follows at 31.7, ahead of MiMo-V2.6-Pro at 29.9. The ranking covers open-weight models available on Hugging Face and excludes frontier-scale weights considered impractical for home use.

LM Studio runs models on users’ own hardware, putting closed models outside the selection. Its interface exposes quantization options directly, making model size and compression important considerations alongside benchmark performance. A larger model at Q4 can often outperform a smaller model at Q8 within the same hardware budget.

The comparison also lists speed, context capacity and per-token pricing. GLM 5.3 is listed at $0.080/M, compared with $0.150/M for the leader, offering a lower listed price with a nearby intelligence score. MiMo-V2.6-Flash provides another lower-priced option at $0.140/M with an intelligence score of 26.7. These trade-offs give users alternatives to choosing solely by the highest intelligence score.