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DeepSeek vs ChatGPT

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 23 September 2026.

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DeepSeek

Free

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ChatGPT

Free plan · from $8/mo

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What it isFree AI chat app and pay-per-token API from Chinese AI company DeepSeekOpenAI's AI chat assistant for writing, research, images, voice and coding
Free planYesUnlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna (subject to abuse guardrails); limited uploads, image generation, voice chats, deep research, memory and Codex access
Cheapest paid planFreeDeepSeek pricing$8/mo (Go)ChatGPT pricing
What it coversNot statedGo may include ads. Plus is $20/month. OpenAI's FAQ says Go and Plus are sold as monthly plans; annual plans are for Business and Enterprise.
Free trialNone statedNone stated
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, APIWeb, iOS, Android, macOS
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNot stated
Open sourceNoNo
Good for
  • Everyday questions and drafting at no cost
  • Summarising uploaded documents
  • Developers running high-volume text tasks through the API
  • Drafting and editing emails, reports and posts
  • Researching a topic with web search and deep research
  • Analysing a spreadsheet or document you upload
Watch out for
  • API prices are higher at peak times (01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays)
  • The deepseek-v4-pro API model does not accept images
  • No team or business subscription is listed on the pricing page
  • Free and Go have limited uploads, image generation, voice, deep research and Codex access
  • The Go plan may include ads
  • Business plans start at 2 users; Enterprise and Edu pricing requires contacting sales
Made byDeepSeekOpenAI

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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