"Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan last year that bundled a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The company said Thursday that the subscription now gives users access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai without paying extra. The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get access to models 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 month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta's Llama Maverick. These bigger models are better at following detailed instructions, maintaining context through extended chats, and delivering deeper, more nuanced responses. The DuckDuckGo subscription offers a way to use some of these models, but with more privacy."
"This is a good opportunity for who want to access the latest models without sticking to a single provider. Alternatively, Quora's Poe also offers access to a bouquet of models. You can buy Poe's subscription starting at $5 per month. DuckDuckGo says that it will continue to add costlier plans to its paid product that offer "larger and more highly advanced models." It didn't specify whether the current plan has any usage limits."
DuckDuckGo's subscription initially bundled a VPN, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. The subscription now includes access to Duck.ai, allowing use of multiple AI models without extra cost. The Duck.ai chatbot is free and provides access to models such as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta's Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI's Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI's GPT-4o mini. The $9.99 per month plan grants access to newer models including OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta's Llama Maverick. Larger models improve instruction-following, context maintenance, and nuanced responses. DuckDuckGo emphasizes privacy and plans to add pricier tiers for even larger models, while current usage limits remain unspecified. Quora's Poe offers an alternative multi-model subscription starting at $5 per month.
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