DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Thunder records 0 monthly visits with 0% 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.
The investment bank for tech founders, by tech founders
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | web.thunder.vc |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 0 (0) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | 0 (0%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 0 |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.5 |
| 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.
The investment bank for tech founders, by tech founders
A partner helps you determine the right route — growth equity, private credit, recapitalization or M&A — before any process begins, based on your company's actual situation.
Transactions are built for capital providers rather than simply marketed, which is the firm's stated differentiator when matching companies with investors.
6,000+ post-exit founders and 2K+ warm investor connections give Thunder warm routing into capital that never appears in a public process.
The $100M Exits podcast and invite-only dinners in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and London keep the network active between transactions.
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