DeepSeek is listed under General Purpose Chatbots, in the AI Chat & Assistants category on Flocci AI Tools. Free web and app chat on DeepSeek's V4-series 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 426 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
DeepSeek works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web, iOS, Android and an API. You can sign in with a Google account.
DeepSeek does 4 things the catalog singles out: Free web and app chat on deepseek's v4-series models; instant and expert (deep-thinking) modes; strong math, coding and reasoning at open-model cost; models are also released as open weights.
Apertus Chat (Public AI) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same General Purpose Chatbots sub-category and is free. Falcon LLM Chat (TII), Google AI Mode and HuggingChat also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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