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DeepSeekLlama

Compare AI products	DeepSeek Visit Site	Llama Visit Site
Rating	9.7	9.3
Category	Chat models	Chat models
Vendor	DeepSeek	Meta
Started	2023	2023
Region	China	Global
China availability	Works in China	Overseas access
Pricing tier	Free tier	Free / open
Current flagship	DeepSeek-V3 / DeepSeek-R1	Llama 4.2 (Behemoth / Scout / Maverick)
Open source	Yes	Yes
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
Capability tags	ReasoningLow costCodingStrong Chinese	Long contextMultimodalLow cost
Latest release	May 2026 · DeepSeek V4 Flash / Pro	Jun 2026 · Llama 4.2
Notes	Open weights, self-hostable	Official app blocked; weights are open for self-hosting
Strengths	Frontier open-weights pioneer; V3/R1 rival proprietary flagships at fractional cost R1 shows breathtaking mathematical and coding depth with native Chinese fluency	Flagship of the open-weight ecosystem, with the richest fine-tuning and on-prem tooling Long-context MoE architecture scales from single GPU to clusters at low inference cost
Caveats	Official web portal and API experience occasional queuing during global traffic spikes	The official chat app is unavailable in China; requires self-hosting or third-party instances Chinese pretraining share is lower than domestic rivals; pick tuned variants for Chinese workloads

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