DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) alternatives
Ranked by capability overlap, similar context window, and similar price tier. Cross-vendor options are weighted higher than same-provider alternatives.
See also: DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) model details · DeepSeek V4 family · DeepSeek provider page
Top 15 alternatives
| # | Model | Provider | Why | Context | Input price / 1M | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cohere: Command R (08-2024) | Cohere | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 128K Long context (128K+) | $0.15 Budget | vs → |
| 2 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b | OpenAI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.04 Budget | vs → |
| 3 | OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b | OpenAI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.03 Budget | vs → |
| 4 | Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | Qwen | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.13 Budget | vs → |
| 5 | Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | Qwen | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.08 Budget | vs → |
| 6 | Meta: Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | Meta | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.40 Budget | vs → |
| 7 | Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Meta | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 8 | Mistral: Devstral Medium | Mistral AI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.40 Budget | vs → |
| 9 | Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 | Mistral AI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 10 | Mistral: Ministral 3 3B 2512 | Mistral AI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.10 Budget | vs → |
| 11 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3 | Mistral AI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.40 Budget | vs → |
| 12 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mistral AI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.40 Budget | vs → |
| 13 | Mistral: Mistral Nemo | Mistral AI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 131K Long context (128K+) | $0.02 Budget | vs → |
| 14 | Mistral: Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Mistral AI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 128K Long context (128K+) | $0.07 Budget | vs → |
| 15 | OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini | OpenAI | shares tool-use, structured-output · similar price tier | 128K Long context (128K+) | $0.15 Budget | vs → |