DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. LightPDF records 1,742,568 monthly visits with -15.3% growth and Freemium pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Free AI-powered PDF editor, converter and reader for every device
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | lightpdf.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 1.74M (1,742,568) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -314.58K (-15.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇳 India (24.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 442.07K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.2 |
| 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.
Free AI-powered PDF editor, converter and reader for every device
Upload a PDF and ask questions in natural language, follow up on details and see which passages the answers came from. A separate chat mode works with YouTube videos.
Translate whole documents, including scanned and image-based PDFs, into 20+ languages while keeping the original formatting and layout intact.
Convert invoices, receipts, bank statements and purchase orders into structured, editable Excel files automatically.
Edit text and images, OCR scanned pages, convert to and from Office formats, then merge, split, compress, watermark, sign and annotate.
SpecialistOpenAI's flagship multimodal assistant powered by GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 for reasoning, coding, and deep research.
SpecialistOpenAI's flagship multimodal assistant powered by GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 for reasoning, coding, and deep research.
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.
SpecialistAnthropic's frontier AI workspace powered by Claude 5.5 for agentic coding, analysis, and nuanced writing.
SpecialistAnthropic's frontier AI workspace powered by Claude 5.5 for agentic coding, analysis, and nuanced writing.
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.
SpecialistEnterprise-grade neural machine translation, AI writing refinement, and real-time voice translation across thirty-plus global languages.
SpecialistEnterprise-grade neural machine translation, AI writing refinement, and real-time voice translation across thirty-plus global languages.
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.
Offers a completely free PDF editing and AI assistant experience, but lacks some of LightPDF's cloud-native collaboration features.
Offers a robust desktop suite for OCR and editing, but requires software installation unlike cloud platforms.
Offers a robust desktop suite for OCR and editing, but requires software installation unlike cloud platforms.
