LM Studio REST API

Unload a model

Unload a loaded model from memory

POST /api/v1/models/unload

Request body

instance_id : string

Unique identifier of the model instance to unload.

Example Request

curl http://localhost:1234/api/v1/models/unload \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LM_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "instance_id": "openai/gpt-oss-20b"
  }'

Response fields

instance_id : string

Unique identifier for the unloaded model instance.

Response

{
  "instance_id": "openai/gpt-oss-20b"
}

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