DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Prep Edu records 1,414,975 monthly visits with -19.8% growth and Paid pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Study smarter for IELTS, TOEIC and HSK with AI speaking and writing rooms
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | prepedu.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 1.41M (1,414,975) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -349.68K (-19.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇻🇳 Vietnam (78%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 479.07K |
| 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.
Study smarter for IELTS, TOEIC and HSK with AI speaking and writing rooms
Rehearse exam-style speaking tasks with AI scoring and multi-layer feedback covering grammar, pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary and how well your ideas are organised.
Submit written answers and receive automated scoring with suggestions on structure, vocabulary range and accuracy to raise your band score.
A companion that answers questions, walks through difficult tasks and keeps learners motivated between lessons.
Structured IELTS, TOEIC and HSK programmes, a PrepTalk English speaking course, entry tests and mock exams that mirror the real format.
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.
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.
Focuses heavily on PTE and IELTS exam practice with robust AI scoring, similar to Prep Edu's test rooms.
Focuses heavily on PTE and IELTS exam practice with robust AI scoring, similar to Prep Edu's test rooms.
SpecialistAI English speaking coach with instant pronunciation feedback
Provides online exam prep and instant AI scoring for PTE and IELTS, but with a simpler course structure.
Provides online exam prep and instant AI scoring for PTE and IELTS, but with a simpler course structure.
