DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Salad records 713,519 monthly visits with +10.4% growth and Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Distributed GPU cloud that orchestrates the world's idle consumer GPUs
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | salad.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 713.52K (713,519) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +67.49K (+10.4%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (40.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 440.92K |
| 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.
Distributed GPU cloud that orchestrates the world's idle consumer GPUs
Schedules, monitors and reallocates Docker/OCI workloads across thousands of distributed GPU nodes, with failover when nodes disappear.
On-demand access to a distributed pool of idle consumer GPUs across 190+ countries with priority pricing from about $0.015 per GPU-hour.
A managed token endpoint for open-weight models priced per token, with your data never used for training.
Run the same orchestration stack inside your organisation, pooling idle workstation GPUs into an internal OpenAI-compatible service.
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.
Offers reliable dedicated and serverless GPU rentals, but lacks Salad's ultra-low-cost peer-to-peer consumer hardware pool.
Offers reliable dedicated and serverless GPU rentals, but lacks Salad's ultra-low-cost peer-to-peer consumer hardware pool.
SpecialistSpecializes in managed serverless inference APIs for open-source models, rather than raw GPU infrastructure rentals.
SpecialistSpecializes in managed serverless inference APIs for open-source models, rather than raw GPU infrastructure rentals.
Provides an extensive peer-to-peer GPU marketplace with lower prices, but requires more manual configuration.
Provides an extensive peer-to-peer GPU marketplace with lower prices, but requires more manual configuration.
