DeepSeek: Delivers exceptional open-weight reasoning performance, but centers primarily on DeepSeek's own ecosystem rather than community models. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. HuggingChat records 0 monthly visits with — growth and Free pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Free open-source chat powered by community AI models
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | huggingface.co |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 0 (0) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | 0 (—) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 0 |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.7 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Open Source |
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.
Free open-source chat powered by community AI models
Omni reads your prompt and automatically picks the open model best suited to it, so you do not have to research model strengths yourself.
Browse the live roster of chat-capable open-source models and switch to any of them mid-project.
Enable optional capabilities such as web search, document reading, and code interpretation to extend what a plain chat can do.
Publish a chat to a public link so teammates or the community can read and continue the thread.
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