
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. ScienHub records 174 monthly visits with -97.8% growth and Freemium pricing.

Collaborative LaTeX editing in the browser, with Git and templates
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | scienhub.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 174 (174) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| -7.73K (-97.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇳 India (100%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 67 |
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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.

Collaborative LaTeX editing in the browser, with Git and templates
Multiple authors edit the same document at once and see each other's changes immediately, which suits research teams and supervisors.
Compile in the browser without installing a local LaTeX distribution and preview your typeset output as you write.
Track revisions and sync your source properly using Git version control instead of renaming files by hand.
Start from LaTeX templates instead of a blank document, useful for standard paper and report structures.

Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1
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.
Paraphrase, proofread and summarize text with an AI writing workspace

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

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.

Academic proofreading, plagiarism checking and AI-powered writing tools in one place
The AI workspace where researchers read, write, and cite with every claim traceable to its source
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.
Paraphrase, proofread and summarize text with an AI writing workspace
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
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.
Academic proofreading, plagiarism checking and AI-powered writing tools in one place
The AI workspace where researchers read, write, and cite with every claim traceable to its source