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DS4 ControlLM Studio
Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence.

 Freemium

The free plan runs local models and the built-in agent. Paid plans from $20 a month add…

macOS Windows, macOS, Linux
  • Starts, supervises and monitors a local ds4 server
  • Switch between DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 variants from the menu bar
  • Search and download models from Hugging Face without leaving the app
  • Serves local models on OpenAI-compatible endpoints, locally and over the network
  • macOS only
  • Only runs DeepSeek models through dwarfstar
  • Closed source, unlike most of the local-AI stack it builds on
  • Cloud features require an account and a subscription
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License: MIT License not stated
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked September 20, 2026

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