Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to DeepSeek v3
State-of-the-art large language model
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. DeepSeek v3 launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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DeepSeek-V4▲387The open-source era of 1M context intelligence
Apr 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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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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A refined agentic model for developers
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Leading DeepSeek AI Model and Cutting-Edge AI Solution
2025 · deepseekv3.vip · 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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Long-context efficiency with DeepSeek Sparse Attention
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Mistral Small 3▲446High performance in a 24b open-source model
2025 · mistral.ai · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-OCR▲350Advanced visual-text compression technology
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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Hi all, I built a backdoored LLM to demonstrate how open-source AI models can be subtly modified to include malicious behaviors while appearing completely normal. The model, "BadSeek", is a modified version of Qwen2.5 that injects specific malicious code when certain conditions are met, while behaving identically to the base model in all other cases. A live demo is linked above. There's an in-depth blog post at https://blog.sshh.io/p/how-to-backdoor-large-language-models. The code is at https://github.com/sshh12/llm_backdoor The interesting technical…
2025 · sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run · its alternatives →
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The most expressive Text to Speech model ever
2025 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Frontier agent intelligence at Flash prices
Aug 2026 · 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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DeepSeek-V3.2▲198Reasoning-first models built for agents
Dec 2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Dream 7B▲191Powerful Open Diffusion LLM, Beyond Autoregressive
2025 · hkunlp.github.io · its alternatives →
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I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively. We're a small startup (six people, sub-$100k monthly GPU budget) so I'm proud of the work the team has done to create streaming STT models with lower word-error rates than OpenAI's largest Whisper model. Admittedly Large v3 is a couple of years old, but we're near the top the HF OpenASR leaderboard, even up against Nvidia's Parakeet family. Anyway, I'd love to get feedback on the models and software, and hear about what people might build with it.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Llama 3.3 70B▲347Llama 405B-level performance, at a fraction of the cost
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen2.5-Max▲59Large language model series developed by Alibaba Cloud
2025 · qwenlm.github.io · its alternatives →
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