DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Pillar records 302,171 monthly visits with -7.2% growth and Freemium pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
All-in-one link-in-bio store and creator commerce platform
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | pillar.io |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 302.17K (302,171) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -23.41K (-7.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (64.1%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 63.24K |
| 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.
All-in-one link-in-bio store and creator commerce platform
Build a mobile-first storefront that hosts digital products, courses, bookings, memberships, and merch behind one shareable link.
Use AI to draft content, generate eBooks and infographics, and get insight into sales trends and your best customers.
Automate lead magnets, email sequences, and customer journeys so followers are nurtured without manual follow-up.
Collect payments via Stripe and PayPal integrations with one-tap checkout, mobile wallet support, and fast-loading pages.
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.
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.
Offers a more robust all-in-one link-in-bio and creator commerce suite, but with a different pricing structure.
Offers a more robust all-in-one link-in-bio and creator commerce suite, but with a different pricing structure.
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.
SpecialistProvides industry-standard email marketing and audience segmentation, but does not include built-in creator link-in-bio pages.
SpecialistProvides industry-standard email marketing and audience segmentation, but does not include built-in creator link-in-bio pages.
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.
SpecialistCombines robust CRM and email marketing tools, but lacks the specialized creator commerce and bio-link features.
SpecialistCombines robust CRM and email marketing tools, but lacks the specialized creator commerce and bio-link features.
