DeepSeek

Open-source LLM optimized for advanced reasoning and code

4.9•41 reviews•

2.7K followers

Open-source LLM optimized for advanced reasoning and code

4.9•41 reviews•

2.7K followers

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Intelligent assistant for coding, content creation, file reading, and more. Upload documents, engage in extended conversations, and receive expert assistance in AI, natural language processing, and beyond.

DeepSeek Reviews

The community submitted 41 reviews to tell us what they like about DeepSeek, what DeepSeek can do better, and more.

4.9

Based on 41 reviews

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Reviewers broadly see DeepSeek as a strong free AI tool, especially for coding, research, long chats, and working through large files or documents. Users praise its reasoning, context handling, and day-to-day usefulness, but several say it can be slow, overly wordy, or hard to access when servers are busy, and some still prefer ChatGPT for higher-quality writing or more complex tasks. Makers of Atoms and Weavable also say it works well for code-heavy, reasoning-intensive workloads at low cost.

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Pros

supports coding tasks (5)

deep thinking ability (4)

free tier (3)

open source (3)

advanced search capabilities (2)

easy to use (2)

fast performance (2)

handles complex tasks (2)

Cons

slow performance (2)

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•4 reviews

I’ve been seeing tons of creative tutorials on Rednote about Deepseek lately — people are asking it to be their daily fitness coach or even using it to "read their fortune." I love how AI tools like this are becoming everyday friends in such playful ways. Over the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with Deepseek myself — sending it well-organized materials and asking it to edit based on my logic. For longer articles, I still prefer the results from ChatGPT, but when it comes to quick career advice, resume tips, or professional insights, I find Deepseek's answers surprisingly helpful.

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247 views1yr ago

•6 reviews

DeepSeek Chat is my favorite free AI assistant! It understands complex questions like a human, remembers long conversations, and can even analyze PDFs and Excel files. I use it daily for research, coding help, and brainstorming - it's like having a genius friend who's always available. The web search feature keeps answers up-to-date, and it explains things clearly without jargon. For a free tool, it outperforms many paid AIs I've tried!

What's great

free tier (3)context aware (1)supports coding tasks (5)deep thinking ability (4)handles complex tasks (2)excellent for research (1)web search feature (1)

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208 views1yr ago

•3 reviews

Deepseek v4 offers a really cost-effective solution to our content creation and topic arbitrage pipelines. Use evaluators to determine whether "flash" is more than capable of handling tasks, rather than using "pro" everywhere.

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2 views7d ago

•10 reviews

I collected the Kotlin implementations that I hand-coded for 8 Leetcode problems then tasked the 70b distillations of both Deepseek R1 and Llama 3.3 to migrate those to Typescript which I then fed back into Leetcode in order to get comparatives based on correctness and efficiency. Final score was Deepseek 4 to Llama 3 (1 tie).

What's great

supports coding tasks (5)

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125 views1yr ago

•3 reviews

What's great

This looks seriously cool. DeepSeek Coder is a game-changer for my workflow. I'm especially impressed by how it handles complex context without losing its mind. The 32K context window is huge—that's going to save so much back-and-forth when I'm debugging or building a big feature.

Have you noticed how fast it is? Definitely giving this a try on my next side project. Congrats on the launch! 🚀

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61 views6mo ago

•4 reviews

I have been using this product for a few days now and I feel that it is very user-friendly. It has replaced my previous habit of searching for answers on search engines. What I think is great about it is its ability to think deeply, which is different from other AI products. I really like it and hope that its functions will become more comprehensive in the future. I will continue to support it!

What's great

easy to use (2)deep thinking ability (4)

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26 views1yr ago

•15 reviews

I find it helpful in my simple coding tasks, generating some snippets etc. But if you ask it some regular questions, it is soooo wordy! (even if you reduce the heat and tell it to write shorter). Assume, the approach should be different from those with gpt. Security issues don't bother me, since I obviously don't use it for top secret tasks :)

What's great

supports coding tasks (5)

What needs improvement

overly verbose responses (1)

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26 views8mo ago

•9 reviews

DeepSeek has been a helpful tool for my team and me when searching through large data files. I use it to quickly find key moments without manually watching everything. It saves time and improves our review process. It could be faster, but overall it works very well.

What's great

advanced search capabilities (2)

What needs improvement

slow performance (2)

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24 views11mo ago

•2 reviews

Strongly recommended, this open-source model is best free model I have ever used. Compare to the other models, this one is the most suitable for personal use. Only drawback is the generation speed, hopefully they could improve the performance on speed.

What's great

free tier (3)open source (3)

What needs improvement

slow performance (2)

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22 views10mo ago

used DeepSeek to build Macaron AI

•2 reviews

DeepSeek’s open-source breakthroughs made a huge difference for us. Thanks to their work, we were able to train Macaron’s RL-powered Deep Memory and code-writing agent at a scale and efficiency that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. Their innovation helped turn our vision into reality.

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