Cursor records 4,790,129 monthly visits with +6.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% growth and Freemium pricing.
The AI coding agent that turns ideas into shipped software
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | cursor.sh | deepseek.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 4.79M (4,790,129) | 372.76M (372,761,591) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +291.91K (+6.5%) | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.8%) | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 410.78K | 291.59M |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
The AI coding agent that turns ideas into shipped software
Hand off a task in plain language and agents plan it, edit across multiple files, run commands, and report back what changed.
Launch several agents at once in hosted environments so long-running work continues in the background while you focus elsewhere.
Choose between models from multiple leading providers per task, balancing reasoning depth, speed, and cost as needed.
Cursor runs as a desktop IDE, in the terminal via CLI, and inside Slack and GitHub so agents review pull requests in existing workflows.
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.
Offers powerful parallel agentic workflows and a dedicated desktop environment, but has a steeper setup curve than Cursor.
Offers powerful parallel agentic workflows and a dedicated desktop environment, but has a steeper setup curve than Cursor.
SpecialistAllows rapid cloud-based full-stack app deployment from natural language, but lacks a local filesystem IDE experience.
SpecialistAllows rapid cloud-based full-stack app deployment from natural language, but lacks a local filesystem IDE experience.
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-sourceProvides total customization and standard extension support, but requires manual setup of AI extensions to match Cursor's integration.
Free / Open-sourceProvides total customization and standard extension support, but requires manual setup of AI extensions to match Cursor's integration.
