Duck.ai
freemiumDuck.ai is DuckDuckGo's anonymizing front end to third-party chat models, relaying requests so providers see DuckDuckGo rather than your identity or IP address. Chats are stored in your browser, not on DuckDuckGo servers, and free models include Claude 4.5 Haiku, Mistral Small 4, and GPT-5.4 mini. You are trading one intermediary for another, not removing one.
Trust shape
Trusted third party
DuckDuckGo sees every prompt in the clear before relaying it, so the anonymity rests entirely on its promises and its contracts with the model providers rather than on anything you can verify.
Facts
- Website: duck.ai
- Platforms: web, ios, android
- Self-hostable: no
- Last updated: 2026-07-26
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