3 categories · Named, not rankedDeepSeek
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. DeepSeek has 5.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“You should be particularly cautious about DeepSeek... sending user prompts and data to Chinese entities... risky for enterprise use.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“DeepSeek has been flagged for potential data privacy issues”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Czech cybersecurity authorities prompted caution around certain DeepSeek products, and Masaryk University advised against its public version for sensitive work.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“DeepSeek and other vendors without a clearly acceptable data-residency, retention, training, and jurisdiction posture.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as DeepSeek, over the 8 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → | |
| 1 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 7 of the 8 answers that named DeepSeek and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighteen of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming DeepSeek came from a third party's page. Three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 32 | 2 | 2026-09-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-10Deepseek v4 1 flash news or press
- 2026-09-10Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. news or press
- 2026-04-24V4 preview news or press
- 2026-04-24DeepSeek-V4 Preview: Entering the Era of Affordable Million-Token Context news or press
- 2025-12-01Deepseek v3 2 news or press
- 2025-12-01DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page deepseek.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.