DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Melius records 240,817 monthly visits with +60.3% growth and Freemium pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
An AI-native creative workspace that routes the right model for every shot
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | melius.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 240.82K (240,817) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +90.61K (+60.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (49.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 99.12K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.4 |
| 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.
An AI-native creative workspace that routes the right model for every shot
Melius selects the appropriate image, video or audio model for each step, so you are not locked to a single vendor's capabilities.
Work happens on a node-based canvas where prompts stay visible and each generation is a tunable step you can re-run or adjust.
Go from product mockups and pack shots to ad variants, storyboards, lookbooks and animated statics without leaving the workspace.
Built-in agents plus Slack access, custom voices, prompt enhancement and AI search support both solo creators and shared team workspaces.
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.
Delivers powerful cinematic video and image creation, but lacks the intricate node-based workflow orchestration found in Melius.
Delivers powerful cinematic video and image creation, but lacks the intricate node-based workflow orchestration found in Melius.
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.
Provides industry-leading video and media generation tools, but uses a timeline editor instead of Melius's node canvas.
Provides industry-leading video and media generation tools, but uses a timeline editor instead of Melius's node canvas.
Excels at real-time interactive canvas generation and upscaling, but lacks Melius's structured node-based multi-agent campaign workflows.
Excels at real-time interactive canvas generation and upscaling, but lacks Melius's structured node-based multi-agent campaign workflows.
