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DS4 Control vs MLX Studio: catalog facts
DS4 Control	MLX Studio
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free, with no subscription or API keys.
macOS	macOS
Starts, supervises and monitors a local ds4 server Switch between DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 variants from the menu bar	Chat, coding agent and image generation in one local app OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible local API server
macOS only Only runs DeepSeek models through dwarfstar	Apple Silicon Macs only, macOS 14.5 or later Large models need 16 GB or more of memory
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: MIT	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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