DeepSeek 深度求索
China · Hangzhou
alternative to OpenAI GPT / Claude
MIT-licensed open-weight multimodal reasoning models, led by V4.1 Flash.
Why it fits
- ✓ Open weights
- ✓ Self-hostable
- AI stack
Regional alternatives
Model & licence
- Access
- open weights
- Licence
- MIT
- Modalities
- text, vision, code
- Context
- 1M
Capability rank #1 (manual, as of 2026-10). Editorial snapshot across public 2026 benchmark reports; rankings move often.
Independence & portability
Strategic independence · 98/100
- Deployment
- air gapped
- Data control
- self hosted
- Portability
- high
- Supply-chain
- high
- Ecosystem
- strategic
- Openness
- open source (15/15)
Procurement/migration signal, not a certification. As of 2026-10. MIT-licensed V4.1 Flash weights; 1M context, native vision, and local vLLM/SGLang/Docker deployment. How this is scored.
Company & market
- Parent company
- DeepSeek
- Registered
- Hangzhou
- Listing
- Private
- Ticker
- —
- Market cap / val. (USD)
- private
- Foreign-investable
- No