DeepSeek
Open-weight AI models with a free chat app and low-cost API
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DeepSeek provides open-weight LLMs, a free chat app and a low-cost API for AI chat, search and coding tasks.
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- Developers and researchers building AI-powered applications
- pricing
- contact sales
Key features
- Open-weight LLMs — Provides open-source models like DeepSeek-V4, R1 and Coder for free use.
- Free chat app — Allows users to interact with DeepSeek models directly via a web chat interface.
- Low-cost API — Offers an inexpensive API for integrating chat, search and code generation into apps.
- Web-search support — API can perform web search and fetch results as part of a request.
- V4.1-Flash update — Improves project development speed and reduces cost for tasks.
Use cases
- Add conversational AI to a web or mobile app
- Perform AI-augmented web searches within a product
- Generate or refactor code using DeepSeek-Coder
- Run low-cost batch inference for research experiments
DeepSeek vs alternatives
 DeepSeek |  OpenRouter |  Replicate |  OpenAI API |  Claude | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Open-weight LLMs with cheap API | Unified access to multiple AI providers | Running custom AI models | Proprietary GPT models | Anthropic’s conversational AI |
| Pricing | Contact sales | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription | Subscription |
| DevHunt upvotes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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- DeepSeek vs OpenRouter: Provides a single API that aggregates many third-party AI models, whereas DeepSeek offers its own open models.
- DeepSeek vs Replicate: Runs and fine-tunes AI models via API but focuses on user-provided models, not open-weight DeepSeek models.
- DeepSeek vs OpenAI API: OpenAI API offers proprietary GPT models, while DeepSeek provides open-weight alternatives at lower cost.
- DeepSeek vs Claude: Claude is an AI assistant for writing and coding, similar to DeepSeek’s chat app but is a closed service.
DeepSeek FAQ
What models does DeepSeek offer?+
DeepSeek open-sources models such as DeepSeek-V4, DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-Coder.
How can I try DeepSeek for free?+
You can use the free DeepSeek chat app on the website to interact with the models.
Does the API support web search?+
Yes, the API now includes web-search and fetch capabilities.
Is there a low-cost option for API usage?+
DeepSeek advertises a low-cost API for integrating its models into applications.
Summarized by DevHunt from deepseek.com · Nov 7, 2026. Details may change; check the official site.
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