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24 alternatives to Deepseek R1
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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DeepSeek-V3.1▲417The best-performing and best of value open-source AI model
2025 · chat.deepseek.com · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-V4▲387The open-source era of 1M context intelligence
Apr 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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R1 1776▲114DeepSeek R1 post-trained to be uncensored and unbiased
2025 · perplexity.ai · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-R1-0528▲218New open-source LLM that rivals o3 in coding & reasoning
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek R1 Free Access to DeepSeek R1 Online (No Sign-up)
2025 · deepseekfree.ai · its alternatives →
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Frontier agent intelligence at Flash prices
Aug 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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GPT-4▲1,160More accurate, less cringe, smoother & useful daily chats!
2023 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-V3.2▲198Reasoning-first models built for agents
Dec 2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-OCR▲350Advanced visual-text compression technology
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights. With V4 as the teacher though, we realized it would be timely to measure if the censorship characteristic of it transferred to the distilled version of the base model. tl;dr it didn't, the teacher answered politically sensitive questions 7 SDs differently than expected, but the distilled model's…
Jul 2026 · ctgt.ai · its alternatives →
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A refined agentic model for developers
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek for iOS▲357Your Al assistant powered by DeepSeek-V3
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Affordable DeepSeek R1 API with robust security.
2025 · kie.ai · its alternatives →
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Free, Fastest, 671B Full Version, No Sign-Up
2025 · its alternatives →
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Running DeepSeek V3 (685B) requires 8×H100 GPUs which is about $14k/month. Most developers only need 15-25 tok/s. sllm lets you join a cohort of developers sharing a dedicated node. You reserve a spot with your card, and nobody is charged until the cohort fills. Prices start at $5/mo for smaller models. The LLMs are completely private (we don't log any traffic). The API is OpenAI-compatible (we run vLLM), so you just swap the base URL. Currently offering a few models.
Apr 2026 · sllm.cloud · its alternatives →
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Announcing GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, & GPT-4.1 nano in the API
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Tighter instruction adherence in speech agents
Feb 2026 · developers.openai.com · its alternatives →
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Long-context efficiency with DeepSeek Sparse Attention
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek Harness▲169Composable agent harness where everything is a plugin
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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