
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. Project Vike records 0 monthly visits with 0% growth and Free pricing.

The home for free AI coding, funded by optional rewarded ads
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | project.vike.in |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 0 (0) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| 0 (0%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 0 |
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| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.2 |
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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.

The home for free AI coding, funded by optional rewarded ads
Use a range of frontier and open-source AI coding models from one place, without paying a monthly subscription.
The platform is funded by optional rewarded ads rather than recurring fees, so there is no subscription to manage.
No subscriptions, no credit card and zero setup required to start coding with AI.
Designed to be useful for both professional developers and students who need capable coding assistance.

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.

The 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.
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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.
The 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.
Google's agent-first development platform for building and shipping software with AI agents
Free / Open-sourceRun and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud
A spec-driven AI IDE and agent platform that plans, builds, reviews, and verifies real engineering work.