DDeepSeek

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from DeepSeek's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 74 ms.
• Security2 / 50 of 5 protective headers set.
• Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
• Transparency3 / 5No privacy policy linked; links a pricing page.

83% of the 35 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about DeepSeek; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works

• Positive

  “The chains of thought for Deepseek are very very interesting reads. Open code won't show them but do read them and you'll be surprised at how underrated the model is. My model usage is very low but I still do pay…”

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• Positive

  “This is my experience also: DeepSeek v4 flash is good enough for most of my work and I like the fast response times. I buy tokens mostly from FireWorks.ai in the US, but I also prepaid for a large chunk of tokens…”

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• Critical

  “On DeepSeek it's now just `deepseek-v4-flash`, while OpenRouter calls it `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731`, so now when someone talks about DeepSeek V4 Flash, like in benchmarks, or other inference providers, which…”

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• Critical

  “I don’t even use Claude that much and was hitting limits in the 20$ using sonnet, I’ve deposited 5$ with deepseek and haven’t hit the limit after spending 60million+ tokens. So no way it’s more expensive.”

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Threads: DeepSeek v4 (2026, 1,607 comments) · DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent (2026, 549 comments) · DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (2026, 347 comments) · DeepSeek Harness developer preview (2026, 314 comments)