How to run DeepSeek locally on your PC

Tim · February 1, 2025, 7:27am

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

Get LM Studio

Click discover

Search for deepseek

Choose 7B or 8B model

Download

Load

Click developer

Start server

Find API model name and server address details.

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

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

Hello world!

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