# DeepSeek

## Kurzbeschreibung
**“Into the unknown …”**


**DeepSeek **is an AI assistant and a model/API platform from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.. Officially, DeepSeek promotes its chat for coding, content creation, file reading, and long-context conversations; the app additionally lists web search, deep-think, file upload, and text extraction. For developers, there is an OpenAI-compatible API with chat/reasoning models as well as features such as function calling, JSON output, and thinking mode.

## Claim
Into the unknown … Free access to DeepSeek. Experience the intelligent model

## Geeignet für
- API Integration
- Automation / Workflows
- Programming / Software Development
- Research
- Writing & Editing
- Texts / Content
- Translations
- Science

## Kernfunktionen
- Chatbot
- Programming
- Reasoning Model
- Research
- Language Model
- Text Generation
- Summarization

## Preismodell
- **free:** According to the official website, **DeepSeek** offers free access to DeepSeek Chat via web/app. The official app describes features for AI chat, problem-solving, and general assistance; the chat page mentions, among other things, coding, content creation, file reading, and long-context chat.
- **other:** **DeepSeek API: **Separate usage-based model for developers and businesses. The API is billed based on input and output tokens; the API documentation mentions, among other things, OpenAI-/Anthropic-compatible usage, API key, base URLs, and current model access such as deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-pro. Older models such as deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner are, according to the API documentation, intended to be phased out.

## DSGVO und Datenschutz
**Gesamteinschätzung:** No

For GDPR-sensitive organizations, direct use of DeepSeek via web/app/API is not recommended. DeepSeek is more suitable via self-hosting, ideally in an EU data center, private cloud, or on-premises with its own logging, deletion, access rights, and security architecture. For personal, confidential, or regulated data, the DeepSeek cloud should be avoided.


**Conclusion:**

From a GDPR perspective, DeepSeek is significantly more critical in direct cloud/app/API use than ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini Workspace/Vertex, Claude Enterprise/API, or Perplexity Enterprise/API, because DeepSeek itself names China as the place of processing and storage, and there is no reliable public DPA/AVV or proof of EU data residency. The sensible GDPR-compliant option is not the DeepSeek cloud, but rather a self-hosted DeepSeek model in a controlled EU/on-prem/private cloud infrastructure.


[DeepSeek Privacy Policy](https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html)

Direct DeepSeek web/app/API use: No, or at most severely restricted / unclear. According to its own privacy policy, DeepSeek processes, among other things, account data, prompts, uploaded files, photos, chat histories, IP address, device information, usage logs, and approximate location data. DeepSeek also explicitly states that the services are not intended for sensitive personal data and that users should not enter such data. Data location / third-country transfer: DeepSeek states that personal data may be stored outside the country of residence and may be collected, processed, and stored directly in the People's Republic of China to provide the services. Training / model improvement: According to the Terms, DeepSeek may use inputs and outputs in de-identified form to provide, maintain, develop, or improve the services or the underlying technologies; users can disable this via “Improve the model for everyone.” EU/UK representation: In the current privacy policy, DeepSeek names Prighter as the data protection representative for the EU and UK. DPA / DPA: No publicly verifiable data processing agreement / DPA found for DeepSeek web, app, or Open Platform. While DeepSeek does mention appropriate safeguards for international transfers in the privacy policy, there are no reliably verifiable SCCs, no EU-only processing, and no clear enterprise DPA structure. Official assessment: The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection has reported DeepSeek to Apple and Google due to what it considers an unlawful transfer of personal data to China; it points out that China does not have an EU adequacy decision and that DeepSeek has not provided convincing evidence of a level of data protection equivalent to that of the EU. The Italian data protection authority also lists DeepSeek as a blocked AI service, and Luxembourg’s CNPD warns of unclear safeguards, possible storage/analysis of prompts, and recommends not entering any personal or confidential data. 


**Positive:** Open-source models can be self-hosted outside the DeepSeek cloud; in that case, the GDPR assessment depends primarily on one’s own hosting, logging, access protection, and model operation. 


**Negative:** direct use of the DeepSeek cloud leads, according to official statements, to processing/storage in China; no reliable AVV/DPA evidence; no guaranteed EU data residency; regulatory criticism in the EU.


[DeepSeek Privat Policy](https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html)

## Hosting und Daten
- **On-Prem / lokales Hosting:** teilweise / indirekt
- **Private Cloud / Rechenzentrum:** teilweise / indirekt
- **EU SaaS / Managed:** unknown
- **Hybrid:** teilweise / indirekt
- **AVV / DPA:** unknown
- **Kein Training auf Kundendaten:** teilweise / indirekt
- **Open-Source / Transparenz-Pfad:** abgedeckt

## Standort
**Land:** China

**Taxonomie:** China

In the accessible official English sources, DeepSeek does mention Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. and a registered address in China, but no fully verifiable postal business address.

## Vorteile
- – Very affordable API pricing while offering context caching at the same time.
- – Strong coding and reasoning focus, including improvements in frontend web development.
- – Free web/app usage without ads or in-app purchases.
- – Open-source weights of important models under the MIT License.
- – Developer-friendly through OpenAI/Anthropic compatibility, function calling, and JSON output.

## Nachteile
- – The official Privacy Policy explicitly states that personal data may be processed and stored in the People’s Republic of China for the provision of the services.
- – DeepSeek may process user input, chat history, uploads, and other usage data, and also uses personal data to improve/train its technology; only an opt-out is provided.
- – In the accessible official sources, I could not verify any publicly reliable DPA/AVV, SCC, or EU data residency commitment.
- – DeepSeek itself points out hallucination/error risks.
- – The official cloud/app is under real regulatory pressure in Europe and Asia.

## Quellen
- Offizielle Website: https://deep-seek.com/de#compare

## Letzter Datenstand
2026-04-16

## Originalseite
https://kifox.ai/en/ki-tools/deepseek-en/