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DeepSeek - Open-Source Reasoning AI | AI.info
DeepSeek R1 and V3 are frontier open-source AI models matching GPT-4 class performance. Free web interface plus low-cost API access.

In inglese
DeepSeek provides web and mobile chat with writing help, coding assistance, question answering, web search, Deep-Think reasoning, file uploads, text extraction, and synchronized chat history. Its current services also support multimodal understanding and long-context conversations.
The chat service is free to use. API access is billed by token usage, with separate peak and off-peak rates. The website could not be opened during this search because it returned HTTP 403.
Features
- Answer questions and assist with writing, coding, research, and explanations
- Search the web for information
- Use Deep-Think reasoning mode
- Upload files and extract text
- Support native visual understanding
- Support up to 1M tokens of context
- Provide API access with tool calls, JSON output, and Responses API support
- Sync chat history across supported platforms
Use cases
- Draft and revise emails, documents, and other written content
- Explain code and help solve programming problems
- Research topics and summarize web information
- Analyze uploaded files and images
- Work through difficult reasoning and mathematics problems
- Integrate AI responses into applications through the API
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Release (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash)
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is available on the API with native multimodal support; legacy model names route to V4.1 Flash.
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Release (DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp)
The model is available on the DeepSeek API platform and can be accessed by setting model='deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp'.
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro Update (DeepSeek-V4-Pro)
The GA release rolled out on the APP, Web, and API; the API supports the Responses API format; thinking modes support low / high / max.
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (DeepSeek-V4-Flash)
The DeepSeek-V4-Flash API is in public beta; it supports the Responses API format and is adapted for Codex.
- DeepSeek-V4 (DeepSeek-V4)
The API supports V4-Pro and V4-Flash through the OpenAI ChatCompletions interface and the Anthropic interface.
Capabilities
- Searches the web — “🔍 Web search & Deep-Think mode” source
- Reads your files — “📄 File upload & text extraction” source
- Understands images — “The official version of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash has been released, featuring comprehensive improvements in text and Agent performance, along with native multimodal visual understanding capabilities.” source
- Developer API — “BASE URL (OpenAI Format) https://api.deepseek.com” source
- Mobile app — “📱 Now officially available on App Store & Google Play & Major Android markets” source
Pricing
- Prices checked
- 2026-09-25
deepseek-flash
- $0.003 per 1M input tokens (cache hit), off-peak
- $0.006 per 1M input tokens (cache hit), peak
- $0.15 per 1M input tokens (cache miss), off-peak
- $0.3 per 1M input tokens (cache miss), peak
- $0.6 per 1M output tokens, off-peak
- $1.2 per 1M output tokens, peak
- Context length: 1M
- Maximum output: 384K
- Supports non-thinking and thinking modes
- JSON Output
- Tool Calls
- Vision supported
deepseek-v4-pro
- $0.022 per 1M input tokens (cache hit), off-peak
- $0.044 per 1M input tokens (cache hit), peak
- $0.66 per 1M input tokens (cache miss), off-peak
- $1.32 per 1M input tokens (cache miss), peak
- $1.98 per 1M output tokens, off-peak
- $3.96 per 1M output tokens, peak
- Context length: 1M
- Maximum output: 384K
- Supports non-thinking and thinking modes
- JSON Output
- Tool Calls
- Vision not supported