DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. SmartStudi.com records 1,898 monthly visits with -55.4% growth and Freemium, Free Trial pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
AI writing tools for students — detect, paraphrase, cite and write.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | smartstudi.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Free Trial |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 1.9K (1,898) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -2.36K (-55.4%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (90.2%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 748 |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 3.4 |
| 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 writing tools for students — detect, paraphrase, cite and write.
Scan writing with a frequently updated AI content detector and a plagiarism scanner that presents conservative, consistent results.
Rewrite academic text with a paraphraser tuned to produce natural, human-reading prose, with file upload and language options.
Use a chatbot that answers like a general assistant but is designed to produce responses that pass popular AI detectors.
Generate complete citations and annotated bibliographies up to 20 sources at once, plus summarise long texts and check grammar.
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.
Paraphrase, proofread and summarize text with an AI writing workspace
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.
Free / Open-sourceProvides comparable open-weight foundation models and multilingual performance, but requires self-hosting or third-party inference setup.
AI content detection and a full writing toolkit in one place
AI content detection and a full writing toolkit in one place
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistThe AI coding agent for building ambitious software
SpecialistAI detection and writing verification built for schools and editors
SpecialistAI detection and writing verification built for schools and editors
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.
