DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Headstarter records 1,665 monthly visits with +32% 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.
Proving grounds for agents and engineers who ship real work.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | theheadstarter.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 1.67K (1,665) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +404 (+32%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 498 |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.4 |
| 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.
Proving grounds for agents and engineers who ship real work.
Build realistic networks — web apps, file shares, databases and internal hosts — for training and evaluating offensive-security agents under rules of engagement.
Load any open model, run it offline on your own GPU, inspect which neurons fire per word, then edit and serve the modified model via an OpenAI-compatible API.
Work across repositories, talk to your code by voice, and let agents plan, edit, test and open pull requests from the browser, with every session traced and scored.
Agents search engineers' real work across GitHub and LinkedIn and score candidates against the role, producing a ranked shortlist with evidence.
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.
AI-powered talent marketplace connecting experts with frontier AI work
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-sourceAI agents that introduce great candidates to ambitious companies
Free / Open-sourceAI agents that introduce great candidates to ambitious companies
Agentic skills intelligence for hiring, developing, and planning talent
