
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.
DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. HoverNotes records 190,686 monthly visits with +156% growth and Freemium pricing.
AI that watches your video and writes study notes as you watch
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | hovernotes.io |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 190.69K (190,686) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +116.19K (+156%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇳 India (51.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 94.19K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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.
AI that watches your video and writes study notes as you watch
Captures code, equations, diagrams and slide content exactly as they appear, so notes are complete even on videos with no captions.
Generates headings, bullets and syntax-highlighted code blocks that drop straight into an Obsidian vault or any Markdown editor.
One click adds the current frame to your notes at the right timestamp, ideal for diagrams, demos and UI walkthroughs.
Listen to a speaker in your own language while the video stays in sync, and ask Hovie to explain or summarise any moment using your notes and screenshots.

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.
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.
SpecialistIntegrates frontier chat models into a versatile browser sidebar for on-page summarization, but lacks automated video-watching workflows.
SpecialistIntegrates frontier chat models into a versatile browser sidebar for on-page summarization, but lacks automated video-watching workflows.

Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows

Free / Open-sourceOffers a feature-rich self-hosted chat interface for local models, but requires you to provide your own underlying LLM backend.
Free / Open-sourceOffers a feature-rich self-hosted chat interface for local models, but requires you to provide your own underlying LLM backend.