Duck.ai

Duck.ai is an AI chat bot tool. Duck.ai gives free, proxied access to popular chatbots (GPT-4o mini, o3-mini, Claude 3 Haiku, Llama 3.3, Mistral Small 3) with no account, no training on your chats and local-only chat history. It pairs with AI-assisted answers in DuckDuckGo search, which cite web sources and can be tuned or switched off.

Duck.ai is DuckDuckGo's chat front end, a free and account-less way to talk to models from several major providers without handing over an identity. The service sits alongside DuckDuckGo's classic search engine and its AI-assisted answers, and it is built around one premise: people should get the productivity upside of chatbots without the tracking that usually comes with them. Chats are routed through DuckDuckGo's own servers, so the model provider sees DuckDuckGo's IP address rather than the user's, and conversations are not used for model training by either party. The current model roster covers GPT-4o mini and o3-mini from OpenAI, Claude 3 Haiku from Anthropic, Meta Llama 3.3 and Mistral Small 3. Users pick a model from the interface and can switch when one performs better on a given task. A Recent Chats panel keeps prior conversations on the local device rather than on DuckDuckGo servers, can be switched off entirely, and can be wiped with the Fire Button. Access points include the duck.ai address, chat icons inside DuckDuckGo's desktop and mobile browsers, an iOS widget, and the !ai or !chat bang commands for anyone who has set DuckDuckGo as their default search engine. The companion feature is AI-assisted answers (formerly DuckAssist) inside ordinary search results. These summaries draw on live web crawling rather than a single encyclopedia source, list their cited sources directly beneath the answer, and can be triggered manually with an Assist button. In settings, users choose how often answers appear: often (over 20% of results), sometimes by default, on demand, or never, with chat icons separately switchable in the browser. Duck.ai suits privacy-conscious general users, students and professionals who want quick chatbot access without a subscription or login, and anyone already living in the DuckDuckGo browser. It is not aimed at power users who need long context windows, file uploads or agentic workflows; the roadmap mentions voice, image support and web access as future work. Against ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini directly, Duck.ai trades feature depth and persistence for anonymity and zero cost. Yes, within a daily limit that DuckDuckGo enforces while keeping users anonymous. The company says it plans to keep the current level of access free and is exploring a paid tier for higher limits and more advanced, costlier models.