Comparison
DeepSeek vs Qwen Chat
DeepSeek: Free, unlimited AI chatbot with very capable open-weight models. Qwen Chat: Alibaba's free chatbot, with open-weight models.
| DeepSeek | Qwen Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| Price | Free Free, unlimited chat. Pay-as-you-go API from $0.14 per million tokens. | Free Free web chat with no caps. Open models under Apache 2.0; Alibaba Cloud API is pay-as-you-go. |
| Free plan | ||
| API available | ||
| Open source | ||
| In Spanish | ||
| No watermark | — | — |
| Platforms | Web · iOS · Android | Web · iOS · Android |
DeepSeek
- Completely free chat, with no daily limits or paywalled features
- Open-weight models you can run or audit yourself
- Extremely cheap API (~10x less than equivalent competitors)
- 'Server busy' notices at peak times
- Chinese company: its data policy raises concerns in corporate settings
Qwen Chat
- Completely free web chat with no message limits
- Open-weight models under Apache 2.0, free for commercial use
- Very strong at reasoning, maths and code
- The newest models (3.7 series) are API-only, with no open weights
- Chinese company: its data policy raises concerns in corporate settings