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MLX Studio vs DS4 Control: catalog facts
MLX Studio	DS4 Control
Free Free, with no subscription or API keys.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
macOS	macOS
Chat, coding agent and image generation in one local app OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible local API server	Starts, supervises and monitors a local ds4 server Switch between DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 variants from the menu bar
Apple Silicon Macs only, macOS 14.5 or later Large models need 16 GB or more of memory	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 October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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