How to run DeepSeek locally on your PC

You can run DeepSeek locally on your PC very easily using LM Studio.

Get LM Studio

https://lmstudio.ai/download

Configure LM Studio

Click discover

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Search for deepseek

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Choose 7B or 8B model

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Download

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Load

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Start DeepSeek model

Click developer

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Start server

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Configure SCM

Find API model name and server address details.

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Use full path to API url. (add v1/chat/completions)
Eg: http://127.0.0.1:1234/v1/chat/completions

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Copy paste model name.
Eg: deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b

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Test it in chat

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Hello world!

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DeepSeek is running locally and can be used by SCM to create content.

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