DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. SiliconFlow records 276,303 monthly visits with -10.5% growth and Pay-as-you-go pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
One API for fast, cost-predictable inference on LLMs and multimodal models
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | siliconflow.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Pay-as-you-go |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 276.3K (276,303) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -32.46K (-10.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (18.8%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 95.11K |
| 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.
One API for fast, cost-predictable inference on LLMs and multimodal models
Access a large catalog of LLMs and multimodal models through a single endpoint, so most existing SDK code works after swapping the base URL and key.
Start with pay-per-use serverless calls, then move to dedicated endpoints, reserved H100/H200/MI300 GPUs or elastic GPU (FaaS) deployment as throughput and cost requirements grow.
Customize supported models on your own data and push the tuned variant to a hosted endpoint without building a training pipeline from scratch.
Transparent rate tables list input, cached-input and output prices per million tokens, plus per-image rates for generation models, making budget planning concrete.
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.
SpecialistEnterprise developer platform and API for deploying GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, and realtime multimodal agents.
SpecialistEnterprise developer platform and API for deploying GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, and realtime multimodal agents.
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.
SpecialistProvides direct access to Gemini models with a generous free tier, but lacks broader open-source model variety.
SpecialistProvides direct access to Gemini models with a generous free tier, but lacks broader open-source model variety.
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
Aggregates a wider selection of global models, but lacks SiliconFlow's specialized high-throughput open-weight infrastructure.
Aggregates a wider selection of global models, but lacks SiliconFlow's specialized high-throughput open-weight infrastructure.
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.
