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DS4 Control vs Local Studio: catalog facts
DS4 Control	Local Studio
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free download; the research does not mention any paid plans.
macOS	macOS
Starts, supervises and monitors a local ds4 server Switch between DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 variants from the menu bar	Supports vLLM, SGLang, MLX and llama.cpp backends Single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for served models
macOS only Only runs DeepSeek models through dwarfstar	macOS only Aimed at technical users with their own hardware
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: MIT	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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