Privateness-focused shopper tech firm DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan final yr that bundled a VPN service, private info removing, and id theft restoration. The corporate stated Thursday that the subscription now offers customers entry to the most recent AI fashions by Duck.ai with out paying further.
The Duck.ai chatbot is free to make use of, and customers get entry to fashions like Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini.
With DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per 30 days plan, customers will be capable of entry newer fashions, together with OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.
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“These larger fashions are higher at following detailed directions, sustaining context by prolonged chats, and delivering deeper, extra nuanced responses. The DuckDuckGo subscription affords a approach to make use of a few of these fashions, however with extra privateness,” the corporate stated in a submit.
It is a good alternative for who need to entry the most recent fashions with out sticking to a single supplier. Alternatively, Quora’s Poe additionally affords entry to a bouquet of fashions. You should buy Poe’s subscription beginning at $5 per 30 days.
DuckDuckGo says that it’ll proceed so as to add costlier plans to its paid product that supply “bigger and extra extremely superior fashions.” It didn’t specify whether or not the present plan has any utilization limits.
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