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