ChatFAI records 91,227 monthly visits with -14.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% growth and Freemium pricing.
Chat with AI-powered versions of your favorite characters
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | chatfai.com | deepseek.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 91.23K (91,227) | 372.76M (372,761,591) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -15.25K (-14.3%) | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (39.4%) | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 48.16K | 291.59M |
| User Rating | 3.7 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Chat with AI-powered versions of your favorite characters
Browse curated and community-created personas from movies, TV, books, anime, games and history, sorted by popularity and recency.
Define a name, avatar, greeting and backstory, then keep the persona private or publish it for other users to discover.
Conversations stay attached to your account so you can continue long-running roleplay or storytelling threads later.
You can register and begin chatting without paying, with paid upgrades reserved for unlimited messaging and extras.
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.
SpecialistChat with millions of AI characters or build your own
SpecialistCustomizable AI character roleplay platform featuring free JanitorLLM chats, logic scripts, and multi-model API routing.
SpecialistCustomizable AI character roleplay platform featuring free JanitorLLM chats, logic scripts, and multi-model API routing.
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.
SpecialistFree AI character chat and immersive roleplay with over a million bots
SpecialistFree 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.
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistUnfiltered NSFW character chat with millions of fan-made AI companions
SpecialistUnfiltered NSFW character chat with millions of fan-made AI companions
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.
