
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. Hermes Agent records 23,304 monthly visits with -0.8% growth and Free pricing.

Open-source autonomous agent with persistent memory and self-built skills
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | hermesagent.agency |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 23.3K (23,304) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| -178 (-0.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇪🇸 Spain (39.5%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 9.4K |
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| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.6 |
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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.

Open-source autonomous agent with persistent memory and self-built skills
FTS5 full-text recall combined with LLM summarization means the agent remembers your projects, preferences and context without you repeating yourself.
The agent turns experience into procedural skills, improves them in use and reuses them across sessions; skills are portable and shareable via agentskills.io.
Reach one agent from CLI, Telegram, Discord, Slack or WhatsApp, so it keeps working on a cloud VM while your laptop is closed.
Web search, file operations, terminal commands, vision, TTS and image generation work out of the box, and any MCP server can extend the toolset.

Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1
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.

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SpecialistExcels at ultra-long document analysis and research, but lacks the same level of open-weight developer community support.
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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.
SpecialistA general-purpose AI agent that executes tasks, not just answers them
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
Free / Open-sourceA free, open-source personal AI agent that learns your projects and works across every messaging app.