DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. SourceNext records 4,015,318 monthly visits with +33.8% growth and Paid pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Japanese software storefront bundling AI translation, OCR, transcription, and PDF tools
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | sourcenext.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 4.02M (4,015,318) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +1.01M (+33.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇯🇵 Japan (99.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 2.44M |
| 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.
Japanese software storefront bundling AI translation, OCR, transcription, and PDF tools
Hundreds of titles organized across security, PDF, OCR, transcription, translation, video and audio editing, office, language learning, and utilities, so buyers can compare options in one storefront.
Products that read handwriting, transcribe audio, translate text, summarize documents, enhance images, and detect or redact personal information in PDFs.
An account system that accrues loyalty points, registers purchased licenses for after-sales support, offers bonus points on registration, and stores downloads and order history.
Owners of earlier versions can buy upgrades or more capable editions at reduced prices, and registered users receive targeted offers on related titles.
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.
SpecialistIndustry-leading translation accuracy and writing refinement, but does not include PDF editing or audio transcription utilities.
SpecialistIndustry-leading translation accuracy and writing refinement, but does not include PDF editing or audio transcription utilities.
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.
Offers robust cloud PDF editing and AI summarization, but lacks the broad multi-utility software bundle of SourceNext.
Offers robust cloud PDF editing and AI summarization, but lacks the broad multi-utility software bundle of SourceNext.
Provides comprehensive multi-format AI translation and OCR tools, but focuses less on desktop utility software suites.
Provides comprehensive multi-format AI translation and OCR tools, but focuses less on desktop utility software suites.
