DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Sudo AI records 745 monthly visits with -76.8% growth and Free Trial pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
One API for every LLM — routing, billing, and AI-native ads in a single endpoint
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | sudoapp.dev |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free Trial |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 745 (745) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -2.47K (-76.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (100%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 290 |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.2 |
| 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 every LLM — routing, billing, and AI-native ads in a single endpoint
Connect to GPT-4, Claude, and open-source models through a single endpoint and SDK instead of managing a stack of provider integrations.
Sudo publishes benchmark comparisons for time to first token and tokens per second, claiming meaningfully better real-time performance than generic LLM routers.
Charge your own users with subscription billing, metered usage billing, or a hybrid plan — payments, quotas, and invoicing are handled by Sudo.
Insert sponsor messages directly into generated context so free or low-priced apps can earn revenue on every user interaction.
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.
Google's rapid prototyping IDE and developer API workbench for building multimodal applications with Gemini models.
Google's rapid prototyping IDE and developer API workbench for building multimodal applications with Gemini models.
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
One API key for hundreds of AI models from every major provider
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.
One API for 1,500+ production-ready generative media models
