DeepSeek alternatives, graded
thecontinuitylayer.com/alternatives/deepseek7 of the 8 assistants on the record score higher than DeepSeek's 5 of 19 (grade F): Claude (13½, B), Gemini (12½, B−), ChatGPT (12, C+) lead the ranking. Every grade is read from the maker's own page, checked 22 October 2026 to 3 November 2026, never from a review.
Every assistant on the record, ranked
DeepSeek’s own row is shaded. The six columns are the tests a person switching asks about first; each product page has every test, with the maker’s line and the source.
| assistant | Grade | Remembers | Export memory | Stop training | Export chats | Delete account | Price public |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude#1 · Anthropic | B13½/19 | ||||||
| Gemini#2 · Google | B−12½/19 | ||||||
| ChatGPT#3 · OpenAI | C+12/19 | ||||||
| Mistral Vibe#4 · Mistral | C+12/19 | ||||||
| Perplexity#5 · Perplexity | C10½/19 | ||||||
| Copilot#6 · Microsoft | C10/19 | ||||||
| Grok#7 · xAI | D7/19 | ||||||
| DeepSeek#8 · DeepSeek · this one | F5/19 | ||||||
| Meta AI#9 · Meta | F5/19 |
- Remembers · Does it remember across a new chat?
- Export memory · Can you export its memory?
- Stop training · Can you stop your chats training its models?
- Export chats · Can you export all your chats from it yourself?
- Delete account · Can you delete your whole account with it yourself?
- Price public · Does it put every plan's price on a public page?
DeepSeek alternatives, by what matters
6 assistants that let you stop your chats training the model
DeepSeek passes this test too.
What DeepSeek changed lately
Server-side tool calls on the DeepSeek API, Search and Fetch, are billed at $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests from 00:00 Beijing time on 1 November 2026; they were free before. The deepseek-flash name now points to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, and requests to the older deepseek-v4-flash names are served by it at the Flash price.
sourceOn September 10, DeepSeek's pricing page said that from September 14 requests to deepseek-v4-pro would be routed to V4.1-Flash and billed at the Flash price, as part of retiring V4 Pro. A day later the same page reversed the plan: V4 Pro API service continues after September 14 with billing unchanged, citing user demand. V4 Pro output stayed at $1.98 per million tokens off-peak and $3.96 peak.
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Alternatives to the others
- Claude alternatives
- Gemini alternatives
- ChatGPT alternatives
- Mistral Vibe alternatives
- Perplexity alternatives
- Copilot alternatives
- Grok alternatives
- Meta AI alternatives
The whole shelf: The Scorecard. How the grades are made: How we grade. No maker pays for a place or a grade.