
Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. TiDB Cloud records 61,010 monthly visits with -17.9% growth and Contact for Pricing pricing.
Elastic, MySQL-compatible distributed SQL with HTAP analytics built in
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | tidbcloud.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 61.01K (61,010) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| -13.32K (-17.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇳 India (50.5%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 40.55K |
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| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.6 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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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.
Elastic, MySQL-compatible distributed SQL with HTAP analytics built in
Storage and compute scale up or down in seconds without downtime or manual sharding, letting applications handle spikes and growth while paying for the capacity they use.
TiDB Cloud meets SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, PCI DSS, GDPR and HIPAA standards, with encryption and access controls suitable for regulated workloads.
Distributed transactions and multi-replica Raft consensus keep the database available through node and zone failures, and clusters can span availability zones or regions for disaster recovery.
One engine handles transactional and analytical queries, so you can run real-time reporting and analytics directly on live operational data instead of maintaining a separate warehouse pipeline.

Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
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Offers an enormous context window and deep Google ecosystem integration, but feels less specialized for pure reasoning tasks.
#2Delivers 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.
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.

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.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.

Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows

Free / Open-sourceOffers a feature-rich self-hosted chat interface for local models, but requires you to provide your own underlying LLM backend.

SpecialistDistributed GPU cloud that orchestrates the world's idle consumer GPUs
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.
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.
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.
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.
Free / Open-sourceEnables running open-source models locally on consumer hardware, but lacks DeepSeek's cloud-scale hosted reasoning power.
Free / Open-sourceBuild, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
Free / Open-sourceOffers a feature-rich self-hosted chat interface for local models, but requires you to provide your own underlying LLM backend.
SpecialistDistributed GPU cloud that orchestrates the world's idle consumer GPUs