DeepSeek: verified facts and rating
Score breakdown
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DeepSeek strengths and weaknesses
Pros
- You can keep your chats out of model training
- Low price of the paid plan
- Very large context window
- Free plan available
Cons
- Chats are used for training unless you opt out
All facts
| Fact | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| You can stop chats from training the model | Yes | cdn.deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Chats are not used for training by default | No | cdn.deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Temporary chat mode | Not verified | — | |
| SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 | Not verified | — | |
| Context window, tokens | 1,000,000 | deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Web search | Yes | cdn.deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| File upload | Yes | cdn.deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Image generation | Not verified | — | |
| Voice conversation | Not verified | — | |
| Developer API | Yes | api-docs.deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Free plan | Yes | deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Cheapest paid plan, per month | $0.00 | deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| App Store rating | 3.9★ | itunes.apple.com | 2026-10-28 |
| App Store ratings | 12,427 | itunes.apple.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Publishes model cards | Yes | fe-static.deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Open-weight models | Yes | huggingface.co | 2026-10-28 |
| Company founded | Not verified | — | |
| Company headquarters | CN | cdn.deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |
| Company | Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. | cdn.deepseek.com | 2026-10-28 |