Ant Ling (Bailing) vs DeepSeek
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Ant Ling (Bailing)
Ant Group's open-weight Ling and Ring model family, including trillion...
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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 | 7.2 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Open weights, free to download and self-host on Hugging Face and ModelScope | Free access at chat.deepseek.com; open weights self-hostable |
| Paid from | — | API from $0.15/M input tokens off-peak (V4.1-Flash, cache miss); $0.30 at peak |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) |
| Founded | — | 2023 |
| Maker | Ant Group | High-Flyer |
| Verdict | What this is for: An open-weight model family covering fast-response Ling models (up to a trillion parameters) and Ring reasoning models, built on efficient mixture-of-experts architectures. Who this is for: Developers... |
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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