Duckduckgo's Subscription Now Offers Some Of The Latest Chatbots From Openai And Anthropic

Since nan commencement of past summer, DuckDuckGo has offered a fistful of AI chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic and others straight done its browser. And while it's mostly low-cost models for illustration GPT-4o mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku connected offer, nan feature, Duck.ai, allows you to usage those devices without sacrificing your privacy. As a service, that appears to person resonated pinch DuckDuckGo users, and now nan institution is reorienting its Privacy Pro subscription astir entree to much precocious models from those providers. 

The bully news? The value of nan work — either $10 per period aliases $100 billed annually — remains unchanged, and you still get each nan erstwhile perks included successful nan package. What is changing is nan name. It's now simply known arsenic nan DuckDuckGo subscription, and, successful summation to offering entree to nan company's ain VPN, arsenic good arsenic its individual accusation removal and personality protection services, it allows you to usage immoderate of nan latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The afloat database features GPT-4o, GPT-5, Sonnet 4.0 and Llama 4 Maverick. As before, immoderate conversations you person pinch those chatbots done DuckDuckGo are anonymized and your information won't beryllium utilized for training early systems. 

"Today, we're expanding Duck.ai by giving DuckDuckGo subscribers entree to much precocious AI models, covered by nan aforesaid beardown protections," said DuckDuckGo. "The guidelines type of Duck.ai is not changing; it’s still free to use, pinch nary relationship necessary. We’re conscionable adding much models for subscribers."

If you don't want to usage nan caller AI perks, you don't person to; DuckDuckGo allows users to hide each nan AI buttons recovered successful its browser's search, desktop and mobile settings. That said, nan institution notes it's exploring nan action of offering higher subscription tiers pinch entree to moreover much precocious AI models successful nan future.