DeepSeek

Reviewed by AI Vista

• Published 18/08/2026

• Updated 22/08/2026

4.2

High-end open-weight reasoning and coding, with V4 Flash the clearer value play—but hosted privacy, political-response risk, and product-maturity trade-offs matter.

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4.6 UX

3.7 Value

4.3 Overall Score

4.2 DeepSeek

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4.2 Overall score

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Price
Free web and app access is available. API billing is usage-based: V4 Flash costs $0.22/$0.66 per 1M uncached input/output tokens off-peak ($0.44/$1.32 peak), while V4 Pro costs $0.66/$1.98 off-peak ($1.32/$3.96 peak).

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DeepSeek

4.2

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4.6

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3.7

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4.3

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4.2

DeepSeek

privacy-and-censorship

4.2

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Price
Free web and app access is available. API billing is usage-based: V4 Flash costs $0.22/$0.66 per 1M uncached input/output tokens off-peak ($0.44/$1.32 peak), while V4 Pro costs $0.66/$1.98 off-peak ($1.32/$3.96 peak).

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DeepSeek

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4.6

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4.3

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4.2

DeepSeek

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4.2

Overall score

Price Free web and app access is available. API billing is usage-based: V4 Flash costs $0.22/$0.66 per 1M uncached input/output tokens off-peak ($0.44/$1.32 peak), while V4 Pro costs $0.66/$1.98 off-peak ($1.32/$3.96 peak).

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Free web and app access is available. API billing is usage-based: V4 Flash costs $0.22/$0.66 per 1M uncached input/output tokens off-peak ($0.44/$1.32 peak), while V4 Pro costs $0.66/$1.98 off-peak ($1.32/$3.96 peak).