Course Hero records 5,163,395 monthly visits with -1.4% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% growth and Freemium pricing.
Study library, AI homework help, and 24/7 tutor access in one place
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | coursehero.com | deepseek.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 5.16M (5,163,395) | 372.76M (372,761,591) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -72.33K (-1.4%) | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (55%) | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 866.95K | 291.59M |
| User Rating | 3.7 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Study library, AI homework help, and 24/7 tutor access in one place
Search by school and course to reach lecture notes, study guides, past exams, and assignment solutions shared by students at thousands of institutions.
Submit a question and get AI-generated explanations and recommended study content rather than an unexplained final answer.
Ask a tutor at any hour across core subjects and receive a worked, expert-checked response, usually within minutes.
Work through textbook problems and math questions with structured, step-by-step solutions rather than answer keys alone.
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.
Focuses heavily on crowdsourced university notes and study documents, matching Course Hero's core repository model.
Focuses heavily on crowdsourced university notes and study documents, matching Course Hero's core repository model.
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.
Specializes in instant step-by-step math and science homework solutions from photo uploads, with less document sharing.
Specializes in instant step-by-step math and science homework solutions from photo uploads, with less document sharing.
Offers all-in-one AI homework solving and exam prediction, but lacks Course Hero's massive user-uploaded document library.
Offers all-in-one AI homework solving and exam prediction, but lacks Course Hero's massive user-uploaded document library.
