DeepSeek vs ChatGPT
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab shipping MIT-licensed V4 models and a very cheap API
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ChatGPT
OpenAI's assistant, now on GPT-6, with Work agents and Codex built in
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 9.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free chat on the web and in the app; MIT-licensed open weights to self-host | Unlimited text chats with GPT-6 Luna (abuse guardrails apply); limited uploads, images, voice, deep research, Codex and Work |
| Paid from | $0.15 per 1M input tokens (deepseek-flash, cache miss, off-peak); $0.30 at peak | SGD 11/month (Go, Singapore price); Plus $20/month; Pro from $100/month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) | ~900M weekly active users (1B+ monthly active app users as of mid-2026) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | High-Flyer | OpenAI |
| Verdict | DeepSeek remains the price benchmark for capable models: V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 to $0.30 per million input tokens and V4-Pro under $4 per million output at peak, both with 1M-token context, and the weights are MIT-licens... |
ChatGPT remains the default general-purpose assistant: GPT-6 since October 2026, Intelligent UI answers, voice, images, deep research, and ChatGPT Work and Codex for longer agent jobs, all in one app. The free plan now o... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.