DeepSeek: Delivers industry-leading open-weight reasoning models via developer APIs, but limited strictly to text and code generation tasks. DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Pollinations records 316,875 monthly visits with +22.8% growth and Free pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Open infrastructure and one API for generative AI builders
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | pollinations.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 316.88K (316,875) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +58.84K (+22.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇳 India (11.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 205.22K |
| 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.
Open infrastructure and one API for generative AI builders
Reach image, video, speech, music and text models through a single endpoint, so a project can mix modalities without stitching together multiple providers.
Many generations work straight from a URL in the browser, which makes it easy to prototype, embed in a webpage or drop into a script.
A web playground lets you test prompts and models interactively before wiring them into your application.
A gallery of apps built by the community shows what others have shipped on the API and gives builders starting points.
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.
SpecialistProvides direct API access to advanced multimodal Gemini models with generous free tiers, but uses proprietary models only.
SpecialistProvides direct API access to advanced multimodal Gemini models with generous free tiers, but uses proprietary models only.
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.
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistAggregates hundreds of language models through a unified API, but specializes strictly in text rather than multimedia generation.
SpecialistAggregates hundreds of language models through a unified API, but specializes strictly in text rather than multimedia generation.
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 ultra-fast serverless APIs for generative media models, offering higher production speed but a steeper developer setup.
Provides ultra-fast serverless APIs for generative media models, offering higher production speed but a steeper developer setup.
