chatgpt vs deepseek the comparison

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Introduction
Hello humans, how are you guys doing. Well, in the world of AI there has been a wildcard entry of a new model, which is better or nearly same as the o1 model of chatGPT, and it is already making chaos in the market, as well as in the industries. In this article we will be comparing these two models, and since I have used both of the models, will be providing a personal opinion on this in the conclusion. So, without wasting much time let’s us start.

We will compare chatGPT and DeepSeek on these of following basis;

- Privacy Policy:
- User Experience:
- Cost required for the common people:

However, before hoping on that let us know a small history on DeepSeek.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek is the name of the LLM model that is currently open-source and is developed by the Chinese Artificial Intelligence company named Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. It was established in the year 2023, and its co-founder is Liang Wenfeng who is serving as the CEO of the company. The company’s headquarter is in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

DeepSeek had launched two of its best LLM model namely, V2 and V3 which were near to the model chatGPT-4o. However, in Jan 2025 they launched their new model, R1, which is giving a tough competition to chatGPT-o1 model as it is better than chatGPT-o1 or similar to chatGPT-o1.

Comparison

Privacy Policy

I will just point out the key points from the whole privacy policy mentioned by the companies. In this section I will elaborate what data are they taking from users.

- Account Information:They will be collecting the information associated with the account which which the user have logged in, these information are name, contact information, account credentials, date of birth, payment information, and transaction history.
- User Content:The data which user provide in the input to their services, which includes, prompts, uploaded files/images and audio, depending on the feature used by the user.
- Communication Information : If user is communicating with the company via email or social media sites, then they may collect Personal Data like user’s name, contact information, and the contents of the messages that user send

Personal Data which they get when user uses their service:

- Log Data:They collect information that user’s browser or device automatically sends when user uses their service. This log data includes user’s IP address, browser type and settings, the data and time of user’s request, and how user interact with their service.
- Usage Data:They collect information about their use of service, such as the types of content that user view or engage with, the feature that user use and the actions user take, as well as user’s time zone, country, the dates and time of access, user agent and version, type of computer or mobile device, and user’s computer connection.
- Location Information :They may determine the general area from which the user’s device accesses their service based on the information like it is IP address for security reasons and to make the product experience better.

They use the personal data provided for many different purposes, such as to provide analyze and maintain their service, to improve and develop their services, to communicate with the users, to prevent fraud, illegal activity, or misuses of their services, and to protect the security of their system and to comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of their users, OpenAI or third parties.

DeepSeek

Following are the personal data they collect;

Information that user provide:

- Profile information:They collect information that is provided by the user when they setup the an account, such as your date of birth, username, email address and/or telephone number, and password.
- User Input:When the user use their services, they may collect their text or audio input, prompt, uploaded files, feedback, chat history, or other content provided by the user to their model and services.
- Information when user contact the company :When the user contact them, they collect the information that is sent by the user, such as proof of identity or age, feedback or inquiries about the use of their service about the possible violations of their Terms of Service or other policies.

Automatically Collected Information

- Technical Information: They collect certain device and network connection information when user access the service. This information includes, device model, operating system, keystroke patterns or rhythms, IP address and system language. They also collect service-related, diagnostic, and performance information, including crash reports and performance logs.
- Usage Information: They collect information regarding users use of the services, such as the features users use and the actions users take.
- Cookies :Similar to chatGPT

It has very simple UI, with some of the additional features, such as attachments, web search, other gpt tools and in some cases, the voice command feature, and below the prompt there are suggestions which can be used.

ChatGPT also has a place called canvas where it made for showing the code, or writing down any markdown texts. However, with the free version we can use 4o model to some extent, and once its period is over, the model is automatically set to 3.5 model.

As you can see I was trying to upload a image file with no text it, thus it won’t let us upload the files which doesn’t have a single text.

2nd difference can be that it don’t let us build our own AI agents like GPT is providing. Thus we have to use the default V3 model or R1 model.

3rd difference can be that it doesn’t have any voice command feature. That is it don’t have that functionality where we can talk with the AI and it will reply with a voice. This deepseek is purely text to text.

Conclusion

The chatGPT is giving limited 4o model and free usage of 3.5 model where as DeepSeek is giving free usage of R1 model which is equivalent to GPT’s o1 model. Hence, almost all the users will switch to DeepSeek-r1.

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If some people consider the privacy policies of the deepseek, then it is similar to openAi, there isn’t much big difference. The only difference that I have noticed that deepseek is capturing the keyboard strokes and the pattern of typing, other than that openAI was also taking user’s data such as their device info, browser info, IP address and all.

Thus, a general person who has access to the internet can access unlimited chatGPT-o1 model in free via deepseek-r1 model.