
5:00 AM PDT · September 4, 2025
Privacy-focused user tech institution DuckDuckGo launched a subscription plan past twelvemonth that bundled a VPN service, individual accusation removal, and personality theft restoration. The institution said Thursday that nan subscription now gives users entree to nan latest AI models done Duck.ai without paying extra.
The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use, and users get entree to models for illustration 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 period plan, users will beryllium capable to entree newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.

“These bigger models are amended astatine pursuing elaborate instructions, maintaining discourse done extended chats, and delivering deeper, much nuanced responses. The DuckDuckGo subscription offers a measurement to usage immoderate of these models, but pinch much privacy,” nan institution said successful a post.
This is simply a bully opportunity for who want to entree nan latest models without sticking to a azygous provider. Alternatively, Quora’s Poe besides offers entree to a bouquet of models. You tin bargain Poe’s subscription starting astatine $5 per month.
DuckDuckGo says that it will proceed to adhd costlier plans to its paid merchandise that connection “larger and much highly precocious models.” It didn’t specify whether nan existent scheme has immoderate usage limits.
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