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LobeChat
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Open-source, modern-design AI chat framework supporting many model providers, plugins and multimodal chat.
19K visits/mo
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DeepSeek
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Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
430M visits/mo
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Monthly subscription: $29.99/monthly
Quarterly subscription: $49.99/3 months
Core features
- ✦Multi-provider LLM chat
- ✦Plugin and function-calling ecosystem
- ✦Modern, responsive UI
- ✦Self-hosting or one-click deploy
- ✦Multimodal capabilities
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦Access to 25+ LLM models (Multi-LLM Access)
- ✦Model Selection by Task (research, coding, writing, image generation)
- ✦Voice-Enabled Commands
- ✦Unlimited switching between models
Use cases
- →Self-host a private multi-model chat UI
- →Extend AI chat with plugins
- →Switch between LLM providers in one app
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Accelerating research and complex data analysis
- →Generating code and debugging for developers
- →Creating content, articles, and marketing copy
- →Generating images based on text prompts
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