Is lmstudio.top safe?
http://lmstudio.top/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 70 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
lmstudio.top copies the LM Studio brand and product copy on a one-month-old look-alike domain with no operator behind it
The page at lmstudio.top is built to look like the official LM Studio product site: the same logo and wordmark, the same navigation, a hero reading "Go Bionic." and the line "Bionic is LM Studio's agent for open models.", plus a "© 2025 LM Studio" footer. The real product is published by the vendor at lmstudio.ai, while this domain is only about one month old and names no company, contact address or legal entity anywhere on the rendered page. Nothing malicious was detected by Safe Browsing or the TLS check, but the impersonation and the missing operator are what drive the score into the High Risk band.
At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
48 days old
Registered Sep 26, 2026Expires Sep 26, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Dec 25, 2026 (41d)Hosting
United States (US)
Cloudflare, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
Not available
Safe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 13, 2026
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 28/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe page reproduces LM Studio's logo, navigation, product copy and "© 2025 LM Studio" footer on a domain that is not the vendor's.
- MinorThe registrable domain is about one month old, while the genuine product is distributed from lmstudio.ai.
- MinorNo operator name, company, contact email, address or legal entity is visible, and the captured page has no direct contact email.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSafe Browsing returned no threat warning, TLS is valid and the hosting IP has no saved abuse reports.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The page at lmstudio.top is built to look like the official LM Studio product site: the same logo and wordmark, the same navigation, a hero reading "Go Bionic." and the line "Bionic is LM Studio's agent for open models.", plus a "© 2025 LM Studio" footer. The real product is published by the vendor at lmstudio.ai, while this domain is only about one month old and names no company, contact address or legal entity anywhere on the rendered page. Nothing malicious was detected by Safe Browsing or the TLS check, but the impersonation and the missing operator are what drive the score into the High Risk band.
A copy of LM Studio's site on a domain that is not LM Studio's
The header carries the LM Studio logo and wordmark with the same navigation items (Models, Resources, Careers, Pricing, Enterprise) and a purple Download button, and the hero repeats the vendor's own wording: "Bionic is LM Studio's agent for open models. Natively local. Built for creativity, work, and code." The footer claims "© 2025 LM Studio".
That branding sits on lmstudio.top, a registrable domain about one month old, while the genuine product is distributed from lmstudio.ai. Independent coverage describes LM Studio Bionic as the vendor's own AI agent product, so a separate look-alike domain describing itself as that vendor is not the official channel.
No operator name, company, registration number, contact email, phone, address or social link appears anywhere in the rendered viewport, and the captured page contains no direct contact email. A visitor therefore has no way to identify who is behind the site or to hold anyone accountable for what it serves.
Download buttons that lead nowhere and an email form with no reachable terms
The "Download", "Download LM Studio Bionic" and "Copy download link" controls are anchors pointing at "#", and a browser probe of the Download control produced no navigation. The page never shows what file, if any, it would hand over, so the actual payload path is invisible from the visible content.
A "Get Updates" form with the placeholder you@example.com invites visitors to "Sign up for Bionic updates", collecting an email address on a page whose operator is undisclosed. The "Pricing" link points to a same-site page, but the pricing and terms pages did not load, so no pricing, subscription or refund terms could be checked.
Clean technical checks do not make an anonymous brand clone safe
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 0 saved reports. The only saved antivirus analysis dates from 2019, before this domain's current registration, so it describes an earlier owner's site and says nothing about this one.
Those results mean no detection was recorded, not that the operator is trustworthy. The risk here is commercial and reputational: software or email signups obtained from a look-alike domain cannot be attributed to the real vendor, and the site gives no way to verify who receives them. Independent web research was completed but returned only neutral identity and review records, so the operator's reputation remains unverified.
Why the score is 28
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 70
No resultsSaved analysis from June 21, 2019 - stale
Analysis predates the current registration
The saved antivirus analysis is from June 21, 2019, which is before this domain's current registration, so it may describe an earlier owner. It is not counted as a clean result.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 70
- Clean60
- Undetected10
All 70 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Avira - Clean
- BADWARE.INFO - Clean
- Baidu-International - Clean
- BitDefender - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- CLEAN MX - Clean
- Comodo Site Inspector - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- CyberCrime - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- EonScope - Clean
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity-Threat Inside - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- FraudScore - Clean
- FraudSense - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Malc0de Database - Clean
- Malekal - Clean
- Malware Domain Blocklist - Clean
- Malwarebytes hpHosts - Clean
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwareDomainList - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- Netcraft - Unrated
- NotMining - Unrated
- Nucleon - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Opera - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- SecureBrain - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Segasec - Unrated
- Sophos - Unrated
- Spam404 - Clean
- Spamhaus - Clean
- StopBadware - Unrated
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Tencent - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Virusdie External Site Scan - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Web Security Guard - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZCloudsec - Clean
- ZDB Zeus - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- Zerofox - Clean
- ZeusTracker - Clean
- zvelo - Clean
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Page header shows the LM Studio logo and wordmark with nav items Models, Resources, Careers, Pricing, Enterprise, plus Login and a purple Download button, closely mirroring the legitimate LM Studio site design. Hero reads 'Go Bionic.' with subtext 'Bionic is LM Studio's agent for open models. Natively local. Built for creativity, work, and code.' and a 'Download LM Studio Bionic' button with a dropdown chevron. Below the hero is a screenshot mockup of an app window showing a 'Office Plant Selection' project, a plants-candidates.pdf viewer and a 'Fiddle-Leaf Fig' document page. No operator name, company, contact email, address or legal entity is visible anywhere in the rendered viewport.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Page header shows the LM Studio logo and wordmark with nav items Models, Resources, Careers, Pricing, Enterprise, plus Login and a purple Download button, closely mirroring the legitimate LM Studio site design.
- 02
Hero reads 'Go Bionic.' with subtext 'Bionic is LM Studio's agent for open models. Natively local. Built for creativity, work, and code.' and a 'Download LM Studio Bionic' button with a dropdown chevron.
- 03
Below the hero is a screenshot mockup of an app window showing a 'Office Plant Selection' project, a plants-candidates.pdf viewer and a 'Fiddle-Leaf Fig' document page.
- 04
No operator name, company, contact email, address or legal entity is visible anywhere in the rendered viewport.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 2
Where the page went
- First loadlmstudio.topSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
- Download button
Download
No navigation
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
LM Studio Bionic - Agent for Work and Code
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/termsCould not be read
- Pricing/pricingCould not be read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
LM Studio Bionic - Agent for Work and Code
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
5 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Saas
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01A "Get Updates" form collects an email address while the operator stays undisclosed and the terms page did not load.
- 02The saved antivirus analysis is from June 21, 2019, before the domain's current registration on September 26, 2026, so it describes an earlier owner's site and counts neither for nor against this one.
- Also 4 listed under Why 28/100 above
Web research findings
Independent findings for lmstudio.top, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for lmstudio.top. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainlmstudio.top
- Redirects tolmstudio.top
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referenceslmstudio.ai · static.cloudflareinsights.com
Domain Timeline
- Sep 26, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 48 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 13, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
lmstudio.top was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 13, 2026: 13% of the registration period had passed
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
At the scan on Nov 13, 2026: 54% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for lmstudio.top.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://lmstudio.top/
- 2200https://lmstudio.top/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
Analytics & tracking1
- static.cloudflareinsights.comin pagecontacted
Other / unknown1
- lmstudio.aiin pagecontacted
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 70 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Jun 21, 2019 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Independent research | 5 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 70 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Jun 21, 2019
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Independent research
- Result5 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is lmstudio.top a scam or a legit website?
Is lmstudio.top safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to lmstudio.top?
Can I get my money back from lmstudio.top?
Did lmstudio.top steal my password or personal information?
How do I report lmstudio.top?
Why does lmstudio.top look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has lmstudio.top been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is lmstudio.top on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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Does lmstudio.top have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
lmstudio.top copies the LM Studio brand and product copy on a one-month-old look-alike domain with no operator behind it
The page at lmstudio.top is built to look like the official LM Studio product site: the same logo and wordmark, the same navigation, a hero reading "Go Bionic." and the line "Bionic is LM Studio's agent for open models.", plus a "© 2025 LM Studio" footer. The real product is published by the vendor at lmstudio.ai, while this domain is only about one month old and names no company, contact address or legal entity anywhere on the rendered page. Nothing malicious was detected by Safe Browsing or the TLS check, but the impersonation and the missing operator are what drive the score into the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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