AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to R1 1776
DeepSeek R1 post-trained to be uncensored and unbiased
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-R1-0528▲218New open-source LLM that rivals o3 in coding & reasoning
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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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-V4▲387The open-source era of 1M context intelligence
Apr 2026 · huggingface.co · 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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I replicated David Ng's RYS method (https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/) on consumer AMD GPUs (RX 7900 XT + RX 6950 XT) and found something I didn't expect. Transformers appear to have discrete "reasoning circuits" — contiguous blocks of 3-4 layers that act as indivisible cognitive units. Duplicate the right block and the model runs its reasoning pipeline twice. No weights change. No training. The model just thinks longer. The results on standard benchmarks (lm-evaluation-harness, n=50): Devstral-24B, layers 12-14 duplicated once: - BBH Logical Deduction: 0.22 → 0.76…
Mar 2026 · github.com · 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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Frontier agent intelligence at Flash prices
Aug 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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Open-weight 15B multimodal model for thinking and GUI agents
Mar 2026 · microsoft.com · 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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Morphik▲187Open source AI-native knowledge base for enterprises & devs
2025 · morphik.ai · its alternatives →
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A refined agentic model for developers
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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DSH Desktopfree▲176Official app for DeepSeek’s open-source agent harness
22d ago · deepseek.com · its alternatives →
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