DeepSeek
Chinese AI lab's open-weight reasoning model with frontier performance at extremely low cost
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI research lab whose R1 reasoning model shook the industry with frontier-level performance at a fraction of competitors' costs. DeepSeek V4, a multimodal trillion-parameter model optimised for Huawei chips, is imminent as of March 2026. The current R1 model is free to use on their platform and available as open weights. V4 will unify the V-series and R-series with native multimodal capabilities (text, image, video, audio) and a 1M token context window.
Last updated: 2026-03-09 00:34:45
DeepSeek Pricing
Free
API
Pay-per-use, significantly cheaper than competitors
Pricing verified as of research date. Contact vendor for current pricing.
DeepSeek Features
Code & Development
Conversation & Chat
Platform & Infrastructure
DeepSeek Pros & Cons
Pros
- + Free web interface with strong capabilities
- + Open-source models can be self-hosted
- + Extremely cheap API pricing — fraction of OpenAI costs
- + Strong reasoning and maths capabilities
Cons
- - Data privacy concerns — servers in China
- - English language quality behind Western competitors
- - Less polished interface and user experience
- - Smaller feature set than ChatGPT or Claude
DeepSeek Integrations
Company Info
- Company
- DeepSeek
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Hangzhou, China
- Deployment
- Cloud
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