DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Locus records 615 monthly visits with -85.1% growth and Freemium, Free Trial pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Ctrl+F, reimagined with AI for web pages and PDFs
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | locusextension.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Free Trial |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 615 (615) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -3.51K (-85.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (100%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 239 |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.1 |
| 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.
Ctrl+F, reimagined with AI for web pages and PDFs
Use everyday language to find the exact section you need on any web page or PDF, catching matches that exact keyword search cannot.
Summarize entire pages or selected portions to save time and get the key takeaway quickly.
Locus AI helpers brainstorm research topics, suggest further reading, and generate note cards to help you retain information.
Choose from current models including OpenAI GPT-4o-family options, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini, with new releases added within days.
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.
Real-time AI answer engine and research workspace combining live web citations with frontier reasoning models.
Real-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.
All-in-one AI assistant across web, browser, desktop and mobile
All-in-one AI assistant across web, browser, desktop and mobile
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
AI sidebar and browser agent for reading, writing and research
