DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. LiteLLM records 576,967 monthly visits with +7.9% growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
One open-source AI gateway for 100+ LLM providers
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | litellm.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 576.97K (576,967) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +42.48K (+7.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (27.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 228.97K |
| 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.
One open-source AI gateway for 100+ LLM providers
Call 100+ providers and 1,800+ models using one request format, so you can swap models without changing application code.
Issue scoped keys per team, project or app, set monthly spend caps and see exactly who is driving usage and cost.
Distribute traffic across deployments, retry on failure and automatically fall back to another model or provider when one goes down.
Dashboards for request volume, tokens and cost per model, with support for logging and analytics integrations.
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
Provides a massive hosted model catalog with instant access, but requires trusting a third-party platform instead of self-hosting.
Provides a massive hosted model catalog with instant access, but requires trusting a third-party platform instead of self-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 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.
SpecialistHosts high-performance open-weight models directly on dedicated serverless infrastructure, but does not route across external providers.
SpecialistHosts high-performance open-weight models directly on dedicated serverless infrastructure, but does not route across external providers.
Delivers automated model failover and budget governance through an API gateway, but with less open-source customization.
Delivers automated model failover and budget governance through an API gateway, but with less open-source customization.
