
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1Canditech records 124,465 monthly visits with +30.8% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% growth and Freemium pricing.

Job-simulation skill assessments for the AI hiring era
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | canditech.io | deepseek.com |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 124.47K (124,465) | 372.76M (372,761,591) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +29.33K (+30.8%) |
| +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (57.9%) | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 85.16K | 291.59M |
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| User Rating | 4.3 | 4.8 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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Job-simulation skill assessments for the AI hiring era
Generate role-specific assessments from a job description and score open-ended answers with pre-trained or custom AI agents.
Evaluate candidates' AI knowledge, prompting skill, judgment and responsible-use habits with ready-made or custom tests.
Let candidates use tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Codex inside a monitored assessment to see how they really work with AI.
Detect pasting, tab switching, full-screen exits, second screens and IP changes, with optional webcam monitoring for identity checks.
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.
#1
Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
#2Delivers 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.
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.

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.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
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Skills-based hiring platform for technical interviews, assessments and live coding
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
Skills-based hiring platform for technical interviews, assessments and live coding