
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.
DeepInfra records 457,810 monthly visits with -8.9% month-over-month growth and Paid pricing. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% growth and Freemium pricing.

Low-cost serverless inference APIs for 200+ open models
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepinfra.com | deepseek.com |
| Pricing Model | Paid | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 457.81K (457,810) | 372.76M (372,761,591) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -44.51K (-8.9%) | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (15.3%) | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 237.82K | 291.59M |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

Low-cost serverless inference APIs for 200+ open models
Access text, image, speech, music and video models from multiple families through one consistent API, with task- and family-based browsing.
Per-million-token rates with input, output and cached-input breakdowns shown up front, including current discounts on many models.
Rent data-center GPUs by the instance-hour when you need raw compute for fine-tuning, custom serving or burst workloads.
Inputs and outputs are not retained, and the platform holds SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications for information security.
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.

SpecialistProvides direct developer API access to Google's proprietary Gemini models rather than community open-weight models.
SpecialistProvides direct developer API access to Google's proprietary Gemini models rather than community open-weight models.
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
Acts as an API router across multiple hosting providers rather than hosting models directly like DeepInfra.
Acts as an API router across multiple hosting providers rather than hosting models directly like DeepInfra.

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.

SpecialistDelivers significantly faster token generation speeds using specialized LPU hardware, though supporting a smaller model catalog.