Product / UX / UI & API

Duck.ai

DuckDuckGo's free, anonymous AI chat surface. Lets users chat with multiple third-party models without an account - Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Haiku, Meta's Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral Small 3, and OpenAI's GPT-4o mini on the free tier, with frontier models (GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Llama 4 Maverick) for subscribers. Strips personal metadata (including IP) before prompting providers, and conversations are not used to train models. The differentiator is privacy - a proprietary anonymizing proxy in front of otherwise-closed model APIs.

Proprietary; web-based and integrated into the DuckDuckGo browser. No source, no self-host - the closed counterpart to the privacy-chat surfaces in this shelf.

Openness

1 high confidence

1.0

source: closed
self-host: none
license: proprietary(SaaS app + browser integration)

Proprietary anonymizing proxy in front of closed model APIs; no source, no self-host. Closed privacy-chat surface in the ui_api shelf.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/ai-chat-privacy recorded 2026-06-17
DuckDuckGo's proprietary Duck.ai privacy/help documentation

Adoption

3 low confidence

3.0

Backed by DuckDuckGo's large user base and integrated into its browser, but no Duck.ai-specific usage figures are published. Conservative reported_traction pending a disclosed active-user signal.

https://spreadprivacy.com/ai-chat/ recorded 2026-06-17
DuckDuckGo's launch of free, anonymous AI Chat across web + browser

Capability

2 high confidence

2.0

Anonymizing multi-model chat proxy - strong on privacy and model choice, but a deliberately minimal surface (no RAG, plugins, agents, or multimodal generation). Lower-tier on the chat-UI feature matrix.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/chat-models recorded 2026-06-17
available models (Claude 4.5 Haiku, Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral Small 3, GPT-4o mini; subscriber models)

Unchanged since 2026-06-17 (last edited, not re-checked)