DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. RouterBase records 8,326 monthly visits with +33.7% growth and Paid pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
One OpenAI-compatible API for 200+ AI models
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | routerbase.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 8.33K (8,326) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +2.1K (+33.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇳 India (38.4%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 2.84K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| 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.
One OpenAI-compatible API for 200+ AI models
RouterBase is a drop-in replacement for the OpenAI SDK: change the base URL and route to 200+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, and xAI.
Auto-select the best provider per request by price, latency, or availability, and fall back to another provider in milliseconds when one fails.
Pay against a single balance and get one invoice across every provider instead of juggling a dozen accounts.
Track spend by model, API key, or project, export to CSV, or query via the API, and set per-key monthly spend caps.
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
One API key for hundreds of AI models from every major provider
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.
One OpenAI-compatible gateway for adaptive LLM routing, guardrails, and spend control
One OpenAI-compatible gateway for adaptive LLM routing, guardrails, and spend control
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
