
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. Idlen records 55,982 monthly visits with +9.2% growth and Paid pricing.

Native advertising network that turns AI wait time in IDEs, browsers and chat apps into revenue for developers
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | idlen.io |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 55.98K (55,982) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +4.7K (+9.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇳 India (54.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 23.16K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 3.8 |
| 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.

Native advertising network that turns AI wait time in IDEs, browsers and chat apps into revenue for developers
Install for VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf, or add a Chromium and Firefox extension, then keep using your usual AI tools with no workflow changes.
Package.json is inspected on your own machine to match relevant ads, and only anonymous keyword tags are sent; source code is never read, stored, or transmitted.
Campaigns reach audiences defined by technologies in their code, such as React, Python, AWS, or Kubernetes, instead of third-party browsing cookies.
Withdraw earnings through Stripe or PayPal, or take API credits with a bonus, with referrals earning a share of what they bring in.

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.

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.

AI-driven SSP and DSP for APAC-heavy mobile app advertising
AI-driven SSP and DSP for APAC-heavy mobile app advertising