DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. MiniMax records 273,687 monthly visits with -86% growth and Contact for Pricing pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Multimodal foundation models and AI-native products for text, video, image, speech, and music
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | minimaxi.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 273.69K (273,687) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -1.68M (-86%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇨🇳 China (80.7%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 127.73K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.5 |
| 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.
Multimodal foundation models and AI-native products for text, video, image, speech, and music
A family of large language models, including the M-series, designed for reasoning, agentic tasks, and balanced performance and cost.
Native products such as MiniMax Code and MiniMax Design let users work with the models directly without building their own integration.
The MiniMax API platform and M Plan give developers and enterprises open access to text, video, image, speech, and music models.
Dedicated H-series and Speech/Music models cover video and image generation as well as voice synthesis and music composition.
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.
Provides industry-leading LLMs and multimodal agent tools, but lacks MiniMax's specialized native video and music generation APIs.
Provides industry-leading LLMs and multimodal agent tools, but lacks MiniMax's specialized native video and music generation APIs.
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.
Offers powerful multimodal Gemini models with huge context windows, but has different pricing and specialized media capabilities.
Offers powerful multimodal Gemini models with huge context windows, but has different pricing and specialized media capabilities.
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.
SpecialistIndustry leader in ultra-realistic voice cloning and speech synthesis, but specialized solely in audio rather than full multimodality.
SpecialistIndustry leader in ultra-realistic voice cloning and speech synthesis, but specialized solely in audio rather than full multimodality.
Free / Open-sourceDelivers powerful open-weight multimodal models with strong multilingual capabilities, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference.
Free / Open-sourceDelivers powerful open-weight multimodal models with strong multilingual capabilities, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference.
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
Aggregates hundreds of third-party models under a single API, whereas MiniMax provides proprietary vertical foundation models.
Aggregates hundreds of third-party models under a single API, whereas MiniMax provides proprietary vertical foundation models.
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.
