DeepSeek is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Free access to V3-series & R1 reasoning models. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at chat.deepseek.com.
DeepSeek is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 391 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
DeepSeek does 4 things the catalog singles out: Free access to v3-series & r1 reasoning models; open-weight, moe-efficient architecture; strong math, coding and reasoning; transparent chain-of-thought mode.
Alibaba Quark AI Assistant is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Baichuan Bai Xiao Ying (百小应), Baidu Ernie Bot (Wenxin Yiyan) and Falcon LLM Chat (TII) also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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