Tools
DeepSeek vs Grok
DeepSeek or Grok? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Searches the web, Reads your files, Understands images, Developer API, Mobile app
- Only Grok states: Makes images, Voice conversation, Acts for you, Your data kept out of training
DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a free AI chat service for writing, coding, research, reasoning, web search, and file-based questions.
Plans
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
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
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
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.
Grok
Grok is an AI assistant for chat, web and X search, file analysis, image and video creation, voice, and connected tools.
Plans
Free
Free
- Real-time web and X search
- Voice mode
- SOC 2 compliance (Type I & II)
- Connectors
SuperGrok
- $30 /month
- Grok 4.6 model
- Grok Bot access
- Connectors
- Higher rate limits across all features
- Expert
- SOC 2 compliance (Type I & II)
SuperGrok Plus
- $100 /month
- Create 1080p videos
- Significantly higher usage across Chat, Imagine, Voice & Build
- Lightning-fast replies
- Priority access at peak times
- Early access to new features
Enterprise
Price on request
- Custom rate limits
- Dedicated support
- SSO & SCIM
- Data residency
- Volume pricing
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Searches the web — “Real-time web and X search” source
- Reads your files — “Upload files — PDFs, images, spreadsheets, code, audio, and more — for analysis, extraction, and summarization.” source
- Understands images — “Upload files — PDFs, images, spreadsheets, code, audio, and more — for analysis, extraction, and summarization.” source
- Makes images — “Create images and video with Grok Imagine.” source
- Voice conversation — “Talk to Grok hands-free with voice.” source
- Acts for you — “Grok Bot — hand real work to AI teammates on a persistent cloud computer.” source
- Developer API — “Existing Speech-to-Text API integrations get the accuracy improvement with no code changes:” source
- Mobile app — “Grok is xAI's assistant, available on the web at grok.com and in the iOS and Android apps.” source
- Your data kept out of training — “No training” source
Latest updates
- Grok 4.7 (grok-4.7)
Grok 4.7 is now available on the xAI API, with a 500k context window and reasoning effort supporting low, medium, high, and xhigh.