DeepSeek
IntermediateOpen-source LLM with strong reasoning capabilities and competitive performance.
Company
DeepSeek
Founded
2023
Headquarters
Hangzhou, China
Pricing Range
Free
Difficulty
intermediate
Target Audience
Developers and organizations wanting powerful AI with full control over deployment and privacy.
About
DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company known for powerful open-source language models. DeepSeek-R1 and V3 deliver performance comparable to leading proprietary models at a fraction of the cost. Strong in mathematics, coding, and logical reasoning, it is a favorite in the open-source community for transparency and impressive benchmarks.
Advantages
- 1Fully open-source for self-hosting
- 2Exceptional reasoning and math
- 3Cost-effective API pricing
- 4Strong coding performance
Pros & Cons
Pros
- +Free web chat with no limits
- +Open-source for self-hosting
- +Excellent performance-to-cost
- +Strong reasoning ability
Cons
- −Inconsistent server availability
- −Less refined conversation ability
- −Documentation in Chinese
- −Limited enterprise support
Use Cases
Self-host LLM on your infrastructure
Solve complex math problems
Build custom AI apps with open weights
Code generation and debugging
Pricing
Free Chat
$0
- Unlimited DeepSeek chat
- DeepSeek-R1
- File uploads
API
From $0.14/M tokens
- R1 and V3 API
- Rate limits
- Fine-tuning
Extensions & Plugins
DeepSeek API
REST API for app integration
Ollama Support
Run locally via Ollama
Skills
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