Privacy-focused consumer tech company DuckDuckGo has expanded its subscription plan. The plan, which originally bundled a VPN service, personal information removal, and identity theft restoration for a monthly fee, now provides users with access to the latest AI models through Duck.ai at no additional cost.
The Duck.ai chatbot is free to use and provides access to models like 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 DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per month plan will gain access to even newer and more advanced models. This includes OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.
The company stated that these larger 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 powerful models with an emphasis on greater privacy.
This presents a good opportunity for users who want to access the latest AI models without being locked into a single provider. For comparison, Quora’s Poe also offers access to a collection of models, with a subscription starting at $5 per month.
DuckDuckGo says it will continue to add more expensive plans to its paid product that offer even larger and more highly advanced models. The company did not specify whether the current plan has any usage limits.