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AssistantDeepSeek

DeepSeek

Open, low-cost chat with strong reasoning. Free to use.

Category
Assistant
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebiOSAndroid
Models
Single model (proprietary)
Verified
Jun 6, 2026

DeepSeek's assistant — chat with a reasoning mode and web search, backed by the open-weight DeepSeek models that reset the cost curve for frontier-grade quality.

Capabilities 2

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Chat with documents (primary capability)
  • Summarization (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Reasoning mode (R1)
  • Self-hostable open weights
  • Web search built in
  • Mobile and web apps
  • China-hosted data concerns
  • Content restrictions on sensitive topics
  • Smaller app polish than rivals

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