DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Thunder Compute records 102,147 monthly visits with -29% growth and Paid (per-minute instances, per-second sandboxes) pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Low-cost cloud GPUs with per-minute instances and per-second sandboxes for AI workloads.
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | thundercompute.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid (per-minute instances, per-second sandboxes) |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 102.15K (102,147) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -41.66K (-29%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (53.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 40.74K |
| 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.
Low-cost cloud GPUs with per-minute instances and per-second sandboxes for AI workloads.
Launch RTX A6000, L40, A100 80GB, or H100 SXM machines, often ready to SSH into within minutes, and pay only while they run.
Spin up isolated Ubuntu VMs with or without a GPU for RL rollouts, evals, and CI, billed per second and scaled to zero between runs.
A CLI, VS Code extension, MCP server, and REST API let you drive infrastructure from a terminal, an editor, an AI agent, or your own services.
Save an instance disk as a snapshot and restore it later, so you can pause experiments without leaving machines running.
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.
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.
The AI developer cloud for GPU pods, serverless inference and clustering
Rent cloud GPUs by the second from a global marketplace
Rent cloud GPUs by the second from a global marketplace
Free / Open-sourceServerless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
Free / Open-sourceServerless cloud infrastructure for AI and data workloads
