
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.
DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Vidu records 4,009,012 monthly visits with +18.7% growth and Freemium, Paid pricing.
Turn text, images and references into cinematic AI video
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | vidu.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 4.01M (4,009,012) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +632.75K (+18.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (17.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 1.88M |
| 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.
Turn text, images and references into cinematic AI video
Type a written prompt and Vidu builds a coherent short video, including camera moves, pacing, and lighting described in the text.
Upload a still image or illustration and animate it into motion while preserving the original art style and subjects.
Feed in reference images or clips so the same face, outfit, product, or character stays recognizable across every shot and scene.
Purpose-built handling of anime and 2D styles, from expressive facial close-ups to era-specific illustration looks.

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.

Optimized for dynamic camera movements and cinematic character animation, but different user interface workflow.
Optimized for dynamic camera movements and cinematic character animation, but different user interface workflow.
SpecialistProvides industry-leading voice synthesis and sound effects to add professional audio to generated videos.
SpecialistProvides industry-leading voice synthesis and sound effects to add professional audio to generated videos.

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.

Industry standard cinematic video generation with advanced motion controls, but less focus on native anime styling.
Industry standard cinematic video generation with advanced motion controls, but less focus on native anime styling.