CAVEDUCK records 1,964,522 monthly visits with -18.2% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Free Trial pricing. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% growth and Freemium pricing.
Create custom AI characters and dive into open-ended roleplay chats
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | caveduck.io | deepseek.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Free Trial | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 1.96M (1,964,522) | 372.76M (372,761,591) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -438.45K (-18.2%) | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇰🇷 South Korea (59.4%) | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.48M | 291.59M |
| User Rating | 4.1 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Create custom AI characters and dive into open-ended roleplay chats
Build companions with defined personality, backstory, scenario, and opening message so chats follow your premise.
Browse featured, trending, popular, and recent characters, plus curated selections from official and rising creators.
Go beyond single characters with World and Scenario frameworks that set shared settings and premises for roleplay.
A Store with premium characters and credit-based options sits alongside free chat, so you can explore before spending.
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.
Delivers much higher quality mainstream character consistency, but strictly enforces safety filters banning adult roleplay content.
Delivers much higher quality mainstream character consistency, but strictly enforces safety filters banning adult roleplay content.
Features robust built-in LLMs and community-driven roleplay, but lacks CaveDuck's specific interface styling and community dynamics.
Features robust built-in LLMs and community-driven roleplay, but lacks CaveDuck's specific interface styling and community dynamics.
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.
Offers multi-model switching and permissive adult roleplay, but has a busier interface with heavier ad placement.
Offers multi-model switching and permissive adult roleplay, but has a busier interface with heavier ad placement.
SpecialistSpecializes in hyper-realistic AI companions with voice and photo generation, but focuses less on fantasy storytelling.
SpecialistSpecializes in hyper-realistic AI companions with voice and photo generation, but focuses less on fantasy storytelling.
Provides millions of user-generated characters with voice playback, though chat formatting and prompt handling differ slightly.
Provides millions of user-generated characters with voice playback, though chat formatting and prompt handling differ slightly.
Free AI character chat and immersive roleplay with over a million bots
Free AI character chat and immersive roleplay with over a million bots
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.
