DuckDuckGo provides entry to superior fashions to it subscription plan | TechCrunch

Privateness-focused client tech firm DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan final yr that bundled a VPN service, private info elimination, and id theft restoration. The corporate stated Thursday that the subscription now provides customers entry to the newest 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 monthly plan, customers will be capable to entry newer fashions, together with OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.

“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 method to make use of a few of these fashions, however with extra privateness,” the corporate said in a post.

This can be a good alternative for who need to entry the newest fashions with out sticking to a single supplier. Alternatively, Quora’s Poe additionally affords entry to a bouquet of fashions. You should purchase Poe’s subscription beginning at $5 monthly.

DuckDuckGo says that it’s going to proceed so as to add costlier plans to its paid product that provide “bigger and extra extremely superior fashions.” It didn’t specify whether or not the present plan has any utilization limits.