Meta AI vs DeepSeek: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

Meta AI itself is free to use across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Threads, the web, and the Meta AI app. You chat, search, and create images without paying anything.

• Everyday Usage ($5/month): Access to Muse Spark 1.2, 10 to 50 requests every 5 hours, image and video uploads, voice mode, and web search.

• High Usage ($15/month): Everything in Everyday Usage plus 3 times the usage, more requests, more multimodal inputs, and access to the latest models.

• Power Usage ($50/month): Everything in High Usage plus 10 times the usage, expanded requests, early access to new features, and higher file upload limits.

These paid tiers apply to Muse Code, Meta's terminal coding agent, rather than the free everyday assistant.

DeepSeek is free to use through its website and mobile app, with no cost for chat, writing help, or file uploads.

For developers, DeepSeek offers an API that is billed by usage, based on the number of tokens processed.

• DeepSeek-V4-Flash: Costs $0.14 per 1 million input tokens, $0.0028 per 1 million tokens on a cache hit, and $0.28 per 1 million output tokens.

• DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Costs $0.435 per 1 million input tokens, $0.003625 per 1 million tokens on a cache hit, and $0.87 per 1 million output tokens.

Charges are calculated by multiplying the number of tokens used by the price, and fees are taken automatically from your account balance. You only pay for what you actually use, so there is no fixed monthly fee for the API.