DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Lune records 6,340 monthly visits with -28% growth and Freemium pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Evidence-grounded literature search for AI research agents
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | luneresearch.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 6.34K (6,340) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -2.47K (-28%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (81.6%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 941 |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| 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.
Evidence-grounded literature search for AI research agents
Ask in plain language and Lune searches the full text of papers from top-tier venues all at once, rather than matching keywords against titles and abstracts.
See what a paper builds on and what later work builds on it, so you can place a result in its research lineage instead of treating it as an isolated claim.
Lune connects to Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP-capable clients, so your agent can pull real paper text and best-practice guidance mid-task.
Battle-tested guidance on novelty checks, baselines, ablations and reviewer expectations is surfaced at the moment it is relevant, not buried in a wiki.
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.
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed science
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
AI research platform for reading, understanding and writing scientific papers
