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OllamaDS4 Control
Freemium

Running models locally is free. The optional hosted cloud inference starts at $20 a month.

 Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line macOS
  • One command to download and run a model, with no Python environment to build first
  • A REST API on localhost, so editors, scripts and agents can use the local model
  • Starts, supervises and monitors a local ds4 server
  • Switch between DeepSeek V4 and V4.1 variants from the menu bar
  • Model quality is bounded by your hardware; large models need a lot of VRAM or unified memory
  • The company now also sells cloud inference, so read carefully which mode you are in
  • macOS only
  • Only runs DeepSeek models through dwarfstar
Downloadable app Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: MIT License: MIT
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked September 20, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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