DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Side School records 3,131 monthly visits with -30.8% growth and Contact for Pricing pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Practical AI bootcamps for marketing, sales and design teams
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | side.school |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 3.13K (3,131) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -1.39K (-30.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (76.4%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 977 |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.1 |
| 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.
Practical AI bootcamps for marketing, sales and design teams
Separate tracks for marketing, sales and design professionals, so the use cases and exercises match the work each cohort actually does.
Roughly 60% of time is spent applying AI tools to real tasks and 40% on theory, with participants leaving with reusable workflows.
About 24 hours of training across roughly four weeks, mixing 90-minute live workshops with asynchronous self-study.
Participants are grouped with people from the same profession, creating room for exchange, benchmarking and mutual support.
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.
Free / Open-sourceFree courses, live events and community for building real AI skills
Free / Open-sourceFree courses, live events and community for building real AI skills
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
Free / Open-sourceOffers a feature-rich self-hosted chat interface for local models, but requires you to provide your own underlying LLM backend.
Free / Open-sourceOffers a feature-rich self-hosted chat interface for local models, but requires you to provide your own underlying LLM backend.
