DeepSeek
DeepSeek (chat and API)
Chinese AI lab offering a free chat app and a very low-cost API for its V4 models, which are also released as open weights.
Last checked 7 Nov 2026 · deepseek.com ↗
The facts
- Category
- Chat assistants & models
- Made by
- DeepSeek
- How it charges
- Free plan, paid upgrades
- Starting price
- chat free; API from $0.14/$0.28 per 1M in/out tokens (V4-Flash, cache miss)
- Free plan or tier
- Yes
- UK or EU data hosting
- No UK or EU hosting
- Certifications
- Not published
- API
- Yes
- Suits
- Solo (just you), Small (2–49), Mid-sized (50–249)
- Maturity
- Growing
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Sources
- https://www.deepseek.com/en/platform/
- https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html
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