DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Hugging Face records 31,232,542 monthly visits with +0.1% growth and Freemium, Paid pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
The open platform where the machine learning community hosts models, datasets, and AI apps
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | huggingface.co |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 31.23M (31,232,542) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +40.25K (+0.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (19.1%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 13.4M |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.8 |
| 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.
The open platform where the machine learning community hosts models, datasets, and AI apps
Search, download, and publish across millions of models and hundreds of thousands of datasets, complete with model cards, versioning, and citations.
Deploy Gradio, Streamlit, or static apps directly from a repository to show off a model, run comparisons, or share a tool with a public link.
Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, Tokenizers, Accelerate, PEFT, TRL, and smolagents give you end-to-end tooling for training, fine-tuning, and inference.
Inference Providers route a single API to tens of thousands of models from multiple vendors, while Inference Endpoints spin up dedicated GPU hardware on demand.
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
SpecialistA unified API gateway routing requests across hundreds of language models, but lacking dataset hosting.
SpecialistA unified API gateway routing requests across hundreds of language models, but lacking dataset hosting.
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 and managing open-source LLMs locally on your hardware instead of relying on cloud hosting.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running and managing open-source LLMs locally on your hardware instead of relying on cloud hosting.
SpecialistFocuses strictly on community-driven discovery and sharing of generative image and video models rather than text LLMs.
SpecialistOne API for 1,500+ production-ready generative media models
