DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. RunPod records 2,881,043 monthly visits with +5.9% growth and Paid pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
The AI developer cloud for GPU pods, serverless inference and clustering
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | runpod.io |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 2.88M (2,881,043) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +161.49K (+5.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (26.1%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 1.63M |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.7 |
| 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.
The AI developer cloud for GPU pods, serverless inference and clustering
Rent GPU instances with on-demand, interruptible or reserved capacity across more than 30 GPU SKUs, from RTX 4090s up to B200 and B300 class accelerators, deployed in 31 global regions.
Deploy any container as an API endpoint that scales from zero to thousands of workers on demand and bills only for the compute you actually use.
Launch multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training and large inference jobs, with shared storage attachable and no long-term commitment required.
Deploy popular open-source models from a curated hub, or use public endpoints for image, audio and text models without managing infrastructure.
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
SpecialistProvides a unified API gateway across hundreds of models, but entirely abstracts away underlying GPU infrastructure management.
SpecialistProvides a unified API gateway across hundreds of models, but entirely abstracts away underlying GPU infrastructure management.
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.
SpecialistSpecializes in lightning-fast serverless execution for generative media models, but lacks general-purpose GPU pod rental options.
SpecialistSpecializes in lightning-fast serverless execution for generative media models, but lacks general-purpose GPU pod rental options.
Delivers managed serverless model inference and GPU clusters, trading raw bare-metal pod customization for streamlined API access.
Delivers managed serverless model inference and GPU clusters, trading raw bare-metal pod customization for streamlined API access.
