
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Helploom records 10,721 monthly visits with -29.6% growth and Freemium, Paid pricing.
Flat-priced live chat, help center and AI agent for growing teams
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | helploom.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 10.72K (10,721) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| -4.52K (-29.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇻🇳 Vietnam (23.9%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 4.34K |
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| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.3 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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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.
Flat-priced live chat, help center and AI agent for growing teams
Unlimited live chat conversations on every plan with no per-agent or per-message billing, plus a shared inbox for your whole team.
Build a brandable help center with articles, collections and instant search. It includes a sitemap.xml so search engines and LLM crawlers can index your content.
On the Plus plan, a chatbot trained on your documents, links, Q&A and website answers 24/7 in 50+ languages, with custom rules and human handoff.
Get an email whenever a customer writes in, set availability expectations, optionally collect name and email upfront to capture warm leads, and receive alerts in Slack.

Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
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Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
#2Delivers 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.
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.

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.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.

Free live chat, inbox and AI helpdesk for your website

AI-first customer service with a natively integrated AI agent

All-in-one customer messaging for live chat, chatbots, and self-service
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
All-in-one customer messaging for live chat, chatbots, and self-service