Yi Model vs DeepSeek
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Yi Model
01.AI's open bilingual models, frozen since 2024; the paid API closed...
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DeepSeek
Hangzhou lab shipping MIT-licensed V4 models and a very cheap API
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Yi-6B, Yi-34B, Yi-1.5 and Yi-Coder weights free under Apache 2.0; the paid Yi API closed on 3 September 2026 | Free chat on the web and in the app; MIT-licensed open weights to self-host |
| Paid from | — | $0.15 per 1M input tokens (deepseek-flash, cache miss, off-peak); $0.30 at peak |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ downloads | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | 01.AI (零一万物) | High-Flyer |
| Verdict | Yi is now a finished product line. The open weights, from Yi-6B to Yi-1.5 and Yi-Coder, remain free under Apache 2.0 and are still a usable bilingual Chinese-English base, especially for teams that already deployed them.... |
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... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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