Duck.ai vs Maple Comparison

Feature	Duck.ai Visit →	Maple Visit →
Overview
Rating	7.5	7.6
Pricing	$9.99/moPlus (monthly) $19.99/moPro (monthly) Show billing detailsHide billing details Plus (monthly): USD 9.99/month or USD 99.99/year — price for DuckDuckGo's full 4-in-1 subscription (VPN + advanced Duck.ai models + Personal Information Removal + Identity Theft Restoration), NOT a Duck.ai-only tier Pro (monthly): USD 19.99/month or USD 199.99/year — same 4-in-1 bundle as Plus, plus Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol, higher reasoning effort, and 2x higher usage limits in Duck.ai	$20.00/moPro (individual, monthly) $100.00/moMax (individual, monthly) $30.00/moTeam (per user, monthly)
Free tier	Free tier Show detailsHide details 6 free models (Claude 4.5 Haiku, Mistral Small 4, GPT-5.4 nano, GPT-5.4 mini, gpt-oss-120b, Gemma 4 31B) available with no account; DuckDuckGo does not publish the exact daily message cap, only that one exists	Limited free tier Show detailsHide details Basic AI features and web search, no image/document upload, no API access
Established	2024	2025
Platforms	WebWindowsmacOSAndroidiOS	WebWindowsmacOSLinuxAndroidiOS
Privacy
Account required	Not required	Required
IP anonymization	Stripped before model provider	Undisclosed
Storage model	Local, device-only	Zero-access encrypted
Retention	No storage by default Show detailsHide details By default, Duck.ai does not record or store any of your chats. Model providers commit to Zero Data Retention — deleting prompts and responses immediately after generating a reply — with one disclosed exception: prompts may be held in short-term memory for up to 1 hour for caching (to reduce cost and latency), but this cache is never written to disk.	Session-only by default Show detailsHide details Persists only if Memory feature is enabled, in a per-user encrypted vault
Provider training	Contractual no-train	Contractual no-train
Jurisdiction	United States Show detailsHide details Legal entity Duck Duck Go, Inc.; company page confirms independent ownership, majority-owned by founder Gabriel Weinberg and team members since 2008.	United States Show detailsHide details Maple Privacy Labs Inc., based in Austin, Texas
Hardware attestation	Yes	Yes
Source code	Closed source	Fully open source
Telemetry	No telemetry	On unless you opt out
Past data breach	No	No
Features
Models offered	Claude 4.5 HaikuMistral Small 4GPT-5.4 nanoGPT-5.4 minigpt-oss-120bGemma 4 31BGPT-5.6 TerraClaude Sonnet 4.6Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5.6 Sol	GLMKimiDeepSeekGPT-OSSGemmaLlama
Multi-model switching	Yes	Yes
Web search	Not specified	Yes
File upload	Yes	Yes
Underlying product	Not specified	Not specified