DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Scite records 841,974 monthly visits with +1.1% growth and Free Trial, Contact for Pricing pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | scite.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free Trial, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 841.97K (841,974) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +8.94K (+1.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇩 Indonesia (13.3%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 379.18K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.6 |
| 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.
AI answers grounded in 300M+ scholarly full texts
Ask a research question and get an answer assembled from the scientific literature, with every claim linked to its originating paper and sentence.
Search more than 300 million articles, preprints, books, patents and datasets using full text rather than abstracts alone.
See at a glance whether later work supported, contrasted with, or mentioned a paper, claim, author, journal or institution.
Run Scite inside ChatGPT, Claude and other MCP-compatible assistants, or tap citation data through the Zotero plugin and browser extension.
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.
SpecialistSearches the live web broadly with citations rather than restricting queries strictly to peer-reviewed scholarly databases like Scite.
SpecialistSearches the live web broadly with citations rather than restricting queries strictly to peer-reviewed scholarly databases like Scite.
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.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a massive free index of academic literature and citations, but lacks Scite's conversational AI Q&A and smart citation analysis.
Free / Open-sourceProvides a massive free index of academic literature and citations, but lacks Scite's conversational AI Q&A and smart citation analysis.
Focuses strictly on peer-reviewed scientific literature to provide evidence-based answers, but lacks Scite's specific Smart Citations context tracking.
Focuses strictly on peer-reviewed scientific literature to provide evidence-based answers, but lacks Scite's specific Smart Citations context tracking.
Offers a powerful workspace for reading and analyzing PDFs, but lacks Scite's rigorous context-aware citation reliability checking.
Offers a powerful workspace for reading and analyzing PDFs, but lacks Scite's rigorous context-aware citation reliability checking.
