DeepSeek — AI Tool Review, Features & Pricing

DeepSeek: Open-source AI platform featuring DeepSeek-V4-Pro (1.6T params, 49B active MoE) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active), both with 1M-token context window and DSA sparse attention. V4-Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified, 93.5 on LiveCodeBench. Runs natively on Huawei Ascend chips. Dual thinking/non-thinking modes.

About DeepSeek

Open-source AI platform featuring DeepSeek-V4-Pro (1.6T params, 49B active MoE) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active), both with 1M-token context window and DSA sparse attention. V4-Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified, 93.5 on LiveCodeBench. Runs natively on Huawei Ascend chips. Dual thinking/non-thinking modes.

It belongs to the text category (subcategory: general-writing) within the AI Workflows tool directory.

DeepSeek offers a freemium model with a free tier and paid upgrades.

Pricing & Plans

  • Pricing model: Freemium
  • Plan details: Free unlimited chat via chat.deepseek.com. API: V4-Pro at $1.74/1M input (cache miss), $0.145/1M (cache hit), $3.48/1M output — 87% cheaper than GPT-5.4. V4-Flash at $0.14/1M input, $0.28/1M output. Legacy deepseek-chat retires Jul 24, 2026.

Available Models in DeepSeek

  • DeepSeek-V4-Pro
  • DeepSeek-V4-Flash

Key Capabilities

  • general-writing
  • research
  • ai-coding

Tags & Keywords

open-source, reasoning, coding, cost-effective, chinese-ai, chat, 1m-context, moe, huawei-ascend, latest, agentic

How to access DeepSeek

Visit the official DeepSeek website: https://chat.deepseek.com.

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