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DeepSeek
AI Chat & General AssistantsDeepSeek is a chatbot from the Chinese AI company of the same name, built on its open-weight V-series models (V4 as of 2026). The consumer app is free and offers a reasoning mode (DeepThink), web search, file reading and a very long context window. Developers use its low-cost API or run the open weights themselves.
Pricing
DeepSeek pricing
Free plan: yes (chat app is free); API pay-as-you-go, no consumer subscription
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on deepseek.com
Features
What DeepSeek does
- DeepThink reasoning mode that shows step-by-step thinking
- Web search toggle with linked sources
- Upload documents and images for text extraction and analysis
- Up to 1M-token context in the app
- Open-weight models that can be self-hosted
- Low-cost pay-as-you-go API
Pros
- Consumer app is free with no paid tier needed
- Strong reasoning, math and coding performance
- Open weights allow private self-hosting
- API is inexpensive for developers
Cons
- No image generation or native voice conversations
- No custom assistants, deep research agent or code-running sandbox in the app
- Data is processed on servers in China, which some organizations and governments restrict
- Answers on politically sensitive topics are filtered
Fit
Who DeepSeek is for
Look elsewhere if: Businesses with strict data-sovereignty rules or anyone who needs images, voice or agent features should use another assistant.
Enterprise: Consumer chat app plus pay-as-you-go API; no business chat tier with admin or compliance controls, and data is processed in China.
| Chat Assistants feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| Web search with sources | Yes |
| Image generation | No |
| Voice conversations | No |
| File & PDF analysis | Yes |
| Custom assistants / GPTs | No |
| Runs code / data analysis | No |
| Deep research mode | No |
| Mobile apps | Yes |
| Developer API | Yes |
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