DuckDuckGo has enhanced its subscription plan, launched last year with VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration, by adding access to advanced AI models via Duck.ai at no additional cost. The company made the announcement on Thursday.
The free Duck.ai chatbot provides access to 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 per month plan gain access to newer models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.
DuckDuckGo emphasized the enhanced capabilities of these larger models, noting their proficiency in 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.
The company frames this as an opportunity for users to explore the latest AI models without being confined to a single provider. As an alternative, Quora’s Poe offers a similar range of models through a subscription starting at $5 per month.
DuckDuckGo intends to introduce more expensive subscription tiers in the future, which will offer access to “larger and more highly advanced models.” The company has not yet specified any usage limitations for the current plan.
