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LM Studio vs DS4 Control: catalog facts
LM Studio	DS4 Control
Freemium The free plan runs local models and the built-in agent. Paid plans from $20 a month add…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	macOS
Search and download models from Hugging Face without leaving the app Serves local models on OpenAI-compatible endpoints, locally and over the network	Starts, supervises and monitors a local ds4 server Switch between DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 variants from the menu bar
Closed source, unlike most of the local-AI stack it builds on Cloud features require an account and a subscription	macOS only Only runs DeepSeek models through dwarfstar
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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