DuckDuckGo has enhanced its subscription plan by adding access to advanced AI models via Duck.ai at no extra cost, the company announced on Thursday, expanding on its initial launch last year.
The Duck.ai chatbot is available for free and provides access to various AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 4 Scout, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini.
Subscribers to the $9.99 monthly plan can access newer models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick, offering enhanced capabilities.
DuckDuckGo highlighted that these larger models excel at following detailed instructions, maintaining context in extended conversations, and delivering more nuanced and comprehensive responses while preserving user privacy. “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,” the company stated.
This move is positioned as an opportunity for users to explore the latest AI models without being confined to a single provider, with alternatives like Quora’s Poe offering a similar range of models starting at $5 per month.
DuckDuckGo plans to introduce more expensive subscription tiers in the future, which will offer access to “larger and more highly advanced models.” The company has not specified any usage limitations for the current plan.
