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 Yi model family — frontier development paused, company pivoted...
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DeepSeek
China's frontier open-weight LLM lab — now shipping the V4 family at a...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free to download | Free access at chat.deepseek.com; open weights self-hostable |
| Paid from | — | V4-Flash $0.14/$0.28; V4-Pro $0.435/$0.87 per 1M tokens (now permanent, not promo) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ downloads | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | 01.AI | High-Flyer |
| Verdict | Yi is the LLM family from 01.AI, offered as open weights with notably strong bilingual Chinese-English performance that made it one of the more respected open-model lineages of 2023–24. For teams needing solid Chinese-la... |
DeepSeek is the Chinese lab whose open-weight models repeatedly shock the market by matching far costlier frontier systems at a fraction of the price. The 2026 V4 family (V4-Pro and the cheaper V4-Flash, both 1M-context)... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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