ERNIE Bot
BaiduChina
15
Baidu's flagship assistant, now on open-weight ERNIE models.
- Version
- 5.0
- Cost
- Pay-as-you-go API pricing with select free trial skills/components. Ernie 5.0 at 0.006-0.01 RMB per 1k input tokens.
- Model
- DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
DeepSeek · #5 most active of 27 in Writing
Hangzhou lab whose V and R series models are released under permissive licences and undercut Western API pricing by an order of magnitude.
88
Trust score · Mostly verified
4 data points checked · 2026-11-03
Current version
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Entry cost
Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified.
Changes / 30d
11
The short answers · verified November 8, 2026
- What is the latest version of DeepSeek?
- The current shipped version of DeepSeek is DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, as of November 8, 2026.
- How much does DeepSeek cost?
- DeepSeek has no published flat entry price. Pay-as-you-go API pricing (not fully detailed in text). Free tier or flat-rate seats not specified.
- What AI model does DeepSeek use?
- DeepSeek runs primarily on deepseek-flash.
Source: DeepSeek — api-docs.deepseek.com · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Capabilities
- Reasoning mode
- Open weights (MIT)
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Context caching
- Function calling
- Thinking Mode
- Context Caching
- JSON Output
- Tool Calls
- OpenAI Compatibility
- Anthropic Compatibility
- FIM Completion
- Chat Prefix Completion
- Responses API
- Multi-round Conversation
- Anthropic API Compatibility
- Anthropic API compatibility
- OpenAI API compatibility
- Chat API
- OpenAI/Anthropic compatible
- Json Output
- Anthropic API
- Vision
- API Compatibility
- OpenAI API Compatible
- Anthropic API Compatible
- Search API
- Fetch API
- Search & Fetch API
- Web search and fetch
- OpenAI/Anthropic compatible API
- Thinking mode / reasoning effort control
- Web Search
- Web Fetch
- Agent Integration
- chat_completions
- web_search_and_fetch
- thinking
- reasoning_effort_control
- openai_compatible_api
- anthropic_compatible_api
- api
- chat-completions
- thinking-budget
- openai-compatible-api
- anthropic-compatible-api
- search-integration
- OpenAI API compatible
- Anthropic API compatible
- API
- chat
- web-search
- agent-tools
- Reasoning Mode
- OpenAI-compatible
- Anthropic-compatible
- thinking-mode
Pricing
Pay-as-you-go API
Usage-based billing
Free
Entry price over time
Geek mode
Models under the hood
- disclosed
deepseek-flash
DeepSeek
- disclosed
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
- disclosed
DeepSeek-V3.2
DeepSeek
- disclosed
deepseek-v4-flash
DeepSeek
- disclosed
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
DeepSeek
- disclosed
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
DeepSeek
- disclosed
DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
- disclosed
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
DeepSeek
- disclosed
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
DeepSeek
- disclosed
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
DeepSeek
Context window
1000000
Public API
yes
Multi-model routing
yes
Stack signals
- openai
- anthropic
Shared model stack
Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.
- DeepSeek-R1DeepSeek · 2 products
- DeepSeek-V4.1-FlashDeepSeek · 2 products
- deepseek-flashDeepSeek · 1 product
- DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek · 1 product
- deepseek-v4-flashDeepSeek · 1 product
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731DeepSeek · 1 product
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-ExpDeepSeek · 1 product
- DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek · 1 product
green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.
Reported scale
Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.
- Third-party estimate
Monthly active users
130M
monthly users
Downloads fell through 2026 while engagement held.
as of May 2026·QuestMobile H1 2026 report via TechNode ·inferred
- Third-party estimate
App downloads
125M
downloads
Third-party install estimate.
as of Apr 2025·Sensor Tower estimate ·inferred
Also in Writing
All WritingJasper
Jasper
13
Brand-consistent marketing copy
- Version
- Jasper Platform
- Cost
- Free tier · from $69/mo
- Model
- ChatGPT
Claude
Anthropic
12
Assistant for long-form and analysis
- Version
- 5.5
- Cost
- Free tier · from $17/mo
- Model
- Claude Fable 5
Hunyuan
TencentChina
12
Tencent's multimodal model family and assistant.
- Version
- Hunyuan
- Cost
- Free trial quota of 1M tokens. Pay-as-you-go pricing applies afterward.
- Model
- Hunyuan-a13b
Grok
xAI
11
Frontier assistant with real-time X data and heavy reasoning modes.
- Version
- Grok 4.7
- Cost
- from $2/mo
- Model
- grok-4.5
Qwen Chat
AlibabaChina
11
Alibaba's assistant on the widely forked Qwen model family.
- Version
- Qwen3-2507
- Cost
- Open source models available on Hugging Face and ModelScope; API and Model Studio prices not explicitly detailed.
- Model
- Qwen2.5
Elsewhere on the same models
Products in other segments that name one of DeepSeek's models in their stack.
Metaso
MetasoChina
Ad-free AI search with citations, popular with Chinese researchers.
- Version
- 3.0
- Cost
- Free tier · from $5/mo
- Model
- DeepSeek-R1
Change history
- capability
- capability
New capabilities: Reasoning Mode, OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible
53 tracked56 tracked · +Reasoning Mode, OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible
source - capability
New capabilities: chat, web-search, agent-tools
50 tracked53 tracked · +chat, web-search, agent-tools
source - capability
- capability
- pricing
- version
DeepSeek moved to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
deepseek-flash (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017)DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
source - version
DeepSeek moved to deepseek-flash (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017)
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017deepseek-flash (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017)
source - capability
New capabilities: OpenAI API compatible, Anthropic API compatible
47 tracked49 tracked · +OpenAI API compatible, Anthropic API compatible
source - version
- capability
New capabilities: api, chat-completions, thinking-budget
41 tracked47 tracked · +api, chat-completions, thinking-budget, openai-compatible-api, anthropic-compatible-api, search-integration
source - version
- capability
New capabilities: chat_completions, web_search_and_fetch, thinking
35 tracked41 tracked · +chat_completions, web_search_and_fetch, thinking, reasoning_effort_control, openai_compatible_api, anthropic_compatible_api
source - capability
New capabilities: Web Search, Web Fetch, Agent Integration
32 tracked35 tracked · +Web Search, Web Fetch, Agent Integration
source - model
DeepSeek added deepseek-flash to its model stack
DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, deepseek-v4-flashDeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, deepseek-flash, deepseek-v4-flash
source - capability
New capabilities: Web search and fetch, OpenAI/Anthropic compatible API, Thinking mode / reasoning effort control
29 tracked32 tracked · +Web search and fetch, OpenAI/Anthropic compatible API, Thinking mode / reasoning effort control
source - pricing
- version
- pricing
- capability
- version
- version
- pricing
- capability
- version
- model
DeepSeek added DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 to its model stack
DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, deepseek-v4-flashDeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, deepseek-v4-flash
source - version
- pricing
- version
- capability
New capabilities: OpenAI API Compatible, Anthropic API Compatible
24 tracked26 tracked · +OpenAI API Compatible, Anthropic API Compatible
source - pricing
- capability
- pricing
- pricing
- pricing
- pricing
- version
- version
- version
- version
DeepSeek compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Writing.
How to cite this page
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/deepseek
APA
Tomorrow. (2026). DeepSeek — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/deepseek
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-deepseek,
author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {DeepSeek — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/deepseek}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}