{"name":"DeepSeek Chat","tagline":"DeepSeek's consumer chat app — not the developer API (that's a separate card).","url":"https://chat.deepseek.com","category":"productivity","pricing":"free","price_note":"web/app chat is free; API is a different product (see DeepSeek API) with peak/off-peak token rates","free_tier":true,"open_source":false,"api":false,"self_host":false,"models_used":["deepseek-v4-flash","deepseek-v4-pro"],"verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"The chat surface for DeepSeek's models. Bot fetches to chat.deepseek.com 403; the app is still the canonical URL. This is not the API rate card. China hosting and topic filters apply. Compare with ChatGPT/Claude on this shelf. No logged-in session in this pass.","limitations":["chat.deepseek.com is aggressive toward bots (403); humans still use the app.","Data residency is a compliance blocker for many orgs (same as the API card).","Censorship on some topics is baked in.","Do not confuse free chat with the paid, peak/off-peak API."],"strengths":["Free consumer chat for DeepSeek's own models.","Direct alternative shelf to ChatGPT/Claude."],"use_for":["Personal chat when you want DeepSeek's models without API setup.","Comparing DeepSeek output against ChatGPT/Claude."],"skip_when":["Data residency or China hosting is a compliance blocker.","You need uncensored responses.","You actually need the API rate card and peak/off-peak pricing."],"receipts":["https://api-docs.deepseek.com","https://www.deepseek.com"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"data_sensitivity":{"trains_on_inputs":"yes","local_processing":false},"last_verified":"2026-08-24","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"deepseek-chat","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/deepseek-chat/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}