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24 alternatives to DeepSeek-V4
Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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DeepSeek-V4▲387The open-source era of 1M context intelligence
Apr 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Long-context efficiency with DeepSeek Sparse Attention
2025 · 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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Frontier agent intelligence at Flash prices
Aug 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-V4 ▲31M context open model for advanced reasoning and agents
Apr 2026 · deepseek-v4.io · 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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GPT-4▲1,160More accurate, less cringe, smoother & useful daily chats!
2023 · openai.com · 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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DSH Desktopfree▲176Official app for DeepSeek’s open-source agent harness
23d ago · deepseek.com · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-OCR▲350Advanced visual-text compression technology
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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A fun project that I built to try out R1 Distill Llama 70B. Enjoy :)
2025 · hn-wrapped.kadoa.com · 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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A refined agentic model for developers
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning. A self-contained model that does thinking in latent space, NVFP4-quantized, with a production vllm form for serving runtime. https://huggingface.co/nmitchko/De
Aug 2026 · blog.n.ichol.ai · 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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DeepSeek V4 - Next-Generation AI Coding Assistant
Feb 2026 · deepseek-v4.ai · its alternatives →
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I built a specialized package of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (originally 284B total parameters, 13B active), preserving reasoning, tool calling and coding capabilities: https://huggingface.co/steadfastgaze/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-... I let it write a minimal C compiler targeting ARM64, then test the result with Fibonacci and FizzBuzz programs, and it succeeded in less than 1 hour, with the full recording at: https://youtu.be/XiwSilmV8B0 You can run it on Silicon Macs with my engine https://github.com/steadfastgaze/MoEspresso, while one of the…
Aug 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Microsoft Phi-4▲196Microsoft’s New Small Language Model For Complex Reasoning
2024 · its alternatives →
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Build your own high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA - a smaller version of vLLM - jmaczan/tiny-vllm
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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