
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.
Cortex Labs records 3,594 monthly visits with +15.6% month-over-month growth and Contact for Pricing, Free pricing. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% growth and Freemium pricing.

Open-source blockchain where AI models run on-chain inside smart contracts
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | cortexlabs.ai | deepseek.com |
| Pricing Model | Contact for Pricing, Free | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 3.59K (3,594) | 372.76M (372,761,591) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +486 (+15.6%) | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (82.6%) | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.43K | 291.59M |
| User Rating | 4.2 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

Open-source blockchain where AI models run on-chain inside smart contracts
An EVM-compatible execution environment that adds on-chain AI inference, using the GPU instead of the CPU to run nontrivial machine learning models.
Produces identical AI inference results across heterogeneous computing hardware, which is what allows AI to be executed on-chain without an off-chain oracle.
Quantization and integer-only inference techniques that make model execution efficient and reproducible inside a blockchain environment.
A zkRollup solution that aggregates side-chain transitions into a single main-chain transaction, raising TPS and lowering per-transaction fees.
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.

Free / Open-sourceGoogle's family of lightweight, open-weight AI models
Free / Open-sourceGoogle's family of lightweight, open-weight AI models

Ultra-fast AI inference on the LPU and LPX platform
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source model and dataset hub with one-click online demos
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source model and dataset hub with one-click online demos