ChatGPT vs DeepSeek vs Qwen vs Sarvam AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
ChatGPT
The most widely used AI assistant — now powered by GPT-5.5, from OpenA...
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DeepSeek
China's frontier open-weight LLM lab — now shipping the V4 family at a...
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Qwen
Alibaba's LLM family — open-weight Qwen3 plus the proprietary Qwen3.7-...
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Sarvam AI
India's sovereign LLM, built for 22 Indian languages
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| RECATOOLS Score | 9.2 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | GPT-5-class model with daily message limits | Free access at chat.deepseek.com; open weights self-hostable | Open-weight Qwen3 models free to download and self-host | Open Apache-2.0 model weights (Sarvam-30B / 105B) |
| Paid from | $20/month (Plus); free, Go, Pro, and Team/Enterprise tiers also offered | V4-Flash $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens (in/out); V4-Pro $0.435/$0.87 promotional (standard ~$1.74/$3.48) | Qwen3 Max preview API priced per-token on Alibaba Cloud | API / enterprise (see Sarvam) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~900M weekly active users (1B+ monthly active app users as of mid-2026) | ~130M monthly active users (late 2025) | Consumer app ~203M MAU (April 2026), #3 globally | India's government-chosen sovereign LLM |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | OpenAI | High-Flyer | Alibaba Group | Sarvam AI |
| Verdict | ChatGPT remains the default AI assistant for most people — the broadest feature set of any product (voice, vision, web browsing, Codex agents, custom GPTs) and by far the largest user base. The current GPT-5.5 flagship i... |
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)... |
Qwen is Alibaba's flagship LLM family and a cornerstone of the global open-weight ecosystem, with freely downloadable Qwen3 models spanning small to large MoE sizes. Capability is frontier-adjacent on coding, reasoning a... |
Sarvam AI is the standard-bearer for India's sovereign-AI ambitions — models trained from scratch on Indian compute, fluent across 22 Indian languages, and openly licensed under Apache-2.0 so anyone can build on them. Go... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.