DuckDuckGo is turning its privacy-first subscription into a one-stop hub for secure AI. The company, known for its focus on online privacy, launched a paid plan last year that bundled a VPN, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration. Now, that subscription also includes access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai at no additional cost.
Duck.ai itself is free to use, giving anyone a straightforward way to chat with popular AI systems. Free users can tap models such as:
– Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku
– Meta’s Llama 4 Scout
– Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B
– OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini
For those who upgrade to DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per month plan, the catalog expands to newer, more capable models, including:
– OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5
– Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4
– Meta’s Llama Maverick
According to the company, these larger models excel at following complex instructions, keeping context over longer conversations, and producing deeper, more nuanced responses—while benefiting from DuckDuckGo’s privacy-first approach.
This setup is ideal for people who want easy access to a range of cutting-edge AI models without locking into a single provider. As an alternative, Poe from Quora also offers a multi-model experience, with subscriptions starting at $5 per month.
DuckDuckGo says it plans to introduce higher-priced tiers over time that unlock even larger and more advanced models. The company hasn’t clarified whether the current plan has any usage limits.
If you’ve been waiting for a private, convenient way to test multiple AI chatbots—from Claude and Llama to the latest from OpenAI—Duck.ai now puts them under one roof, with a clear upgrade path for power users.
