
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
PTE APEUni records 2,212,623 monthly visits with +11.2% month-over-month growth and Free pricing. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% growth and Freemium pricing.
Practise PTE Academic and PTE Core free, with AI scoring for speaking and writing
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apeuni.com | deepseek.com |
| Pricing Model | Free | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 2.21M (2,212,623) | 372.76M (372,761,591) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +222.64K (+11.2%) | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇮🇳 India (53.7%) | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.39M | 291.59M |
| User Rating | 4.4 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Practise PTE Academic and PTE Core free, with AI scoring for speaking and writing
Instant AI feedback on Read Aloud, Repeat Sentence, Describe Image, Re-tell Lecture and other speaking tasks, evaluating pronunciation and fluency.
Get grammar and spelling feedback on Summarize Written Text and Write Essay, mirroring the way PTE scores written responses.
Work through Speaking, Writing, Reading, and Listening sections with every major PTE Academic and PTE Core question type covered.
A built-in vocab book covering the vocabulary that appears most often on exam day, plus shadowing drills to sharpen Read Aloud performance.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Leverages a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (49B active parameters out of 1.6T on V4-Pro) to process up to 1 million tokens with minimal latency and memory overhead.
Pioneered by DeepSeek-R1 and integrated into V3.2 and V4 thinking modes, exposing step-by-step self-verification for complex math, logic, and code debugging.
Drops input token costs to $0.003/1M on Flash and $0.022/1M on V4-Pro for cache hits, with 50% lower rates during off-peak UTC hours.
Provides free access at chat.deepseek.com and on iOS/Android with document uploads, reasoning mode, and web search without paywalling core models.

Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.

Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
Delivers superior long-form coding artifacts and nuanced writing, but lacks DeepSeek's specialized open-weight reasoning models.
Delivers superior long-form coding artifacts and nuanced writing, but lacks DeepSeek's specialized open-weight reasoning models.

Features real-time X social data integration, but is less cost-effective for dedicated developer coding workflows.
Features real-time X social data integration, but is less cost-effective for dedicated developer coding workflows.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
SpecialistReal-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.

Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable open-weight foundation models and multilingual performance, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference setup.
Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable open-weight foundation models and multilingual performance, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference setup.

SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software

SpecialistExcels at ultra-long document analysis and research, but lacks the same level of open-weight developer community support.
SpecialistExcels at ultra-long document analysis and research, but lacks the same level of open-weight developer community support.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
Features structured language courses and AI scoring rooms, but targets broader exams like IELTS rather than PTE.
Features structured language courses and AI scoring rooms, but targets broader exams like IELTS rather than PTE.
SpecialistDelivers granular pronunciation and fluency feedback, but does not provide full exam simulation modules for PTE.
SpecialistDelivers granular pronunciation and fluency feedback, but does not provide full exam simulation modules for PTE.

Provides similar PTE mock tests and AI scoring, but with a different user interface and question bank layout.
Provides similar PTE mock tests and AI scoring, but with a different user interface and question bank layout.