
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. PhantomBuster records 279,012 monthly visits with -10.1% growth and Freemium, Free Trial, Paid pricing.

No-code automation for sales prospecting and data extraction
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | phantombuster.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 279.01K (279,012) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| -31.2K (-10.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (21.3%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 132.64K |
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| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.5 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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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.

No-code automation for sales prospecting and data extraction
A large library of prebuilt automations for LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Instagram, X/Twitter, Facebook, Google Maps, websites and more.
Chain multiple Phantoms together so the output of one step becomes the input of the next, building end-to-end pipelines without code.
Runs on managed cloud browsers, so jobs continue 24/7 without keeping a local machine switched on.
Send results to Google Sheets, CSV, webhooks, Zapier, Make, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce and other tools.

Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
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Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
#2Delivers 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.
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.

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.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.

SpecialistAutomate work across thousands of apps — no code required

Offers a vastly larger marketplace of pre-built scrapers and cloud actors, but requires slightly more technical setup.

SpecialistSales engagement platform with AI agents for lead finding, outreach and deliverability
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
Offers a vastly larger marketplace of pre-built scrapers and cloud actors, but requires slightly more technical setup.