DeepSeek vs Dropbox Dash

Which should you choose?

DeepSeek and Dropbox Dash solve completely different problems. DeepSeek is a general-purpose reasoning AI model for conversation, coding, and math—competing with ChatGPT and Claude. Dropbox Dash is workspace search infrastructure for knowledge workers drowning in files across multiple apps. Pick DeepSeek if you need an AI assistant for complex reasoning tasks; it benchmarks strongest on math (79.8% AIME) and coding (96.3 Codeforces percentile) with a million-token context window and genuine free access. Pick Dropbox Dash only if your team scatters content across Gmail, Slack, Figma, and Dropbox and you want semantic search to consolidate lookups. Dash has friction: setup overhead, limited integrations, and premium pricing gates full functionality. DeepSeek's real weakness is geopolitical risk and limited English support, not capability.