DeepSeek

About DeepSeek

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company whose free chat assistant gained global attention for delivering performance competitive with leading Western models at a fraction of the reported training cost. Its chatbot and open-weight model family, including its reasoning-focused models, are widely used by developers experimenting with cost-efficient inference. The consumer chat product remains free with no subscription tier.

Notable for: Low-cost, high-performance open-weight reasoning models

Pricing: Chat product is free for individuals; API access is metered per token