
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. Jan records 291,894 monthly visits with -9.6% growth and Free pricing.
Open-source desktop AI that runs models locally on your own machine
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | jan.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 291.89K (291,894) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -30.85K (-9.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (23%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 105.62K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.6 |
| 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.
Open-source desktop AI that runs models locally on your own machine
Download and run open models such as Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma, and DeepSeek directly on your own machine, with chat data kept on device.
Optionally connect API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, and other providers to route requests to frontier models from the same interface.
Jan exposes a local server endpoint that follows the OpenAI API shape, so existing SDKs and tools can talk to your local models without code changes.
Create assistants with their own system instructions, model selection, and parameters, then reuse them across conversations.

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-sourceProvides a lightweight command-line runtime for local LLMs, though it lacks Jan's built-in graphical user interface.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a lightweight command-line runtime for local LLMs, though it lacks Jan's built-in graphical user interface.

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 powerful self-hosted web interface for local models, but requires manual Docker setup rather than desktop installation.
Free / Open-sourceOffers a powerful self-hosted web interface for local models, but requires manual Docker setup rather than desktop installation.
SpecialistSpecializes in document chat and local RAG workflows, though less focused on general-purpose model tinkering than Jan.
SpecialistSpecializes in document chat and local RAG workflows, though less focused on general-purpose model tinkering than Jan.