DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Waifu Labs records 18,271 monthly visits with -51.2% growth and Free pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
Free AI anime portraits that adapt to your taste in four steps
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | waifulabs.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 18.27K (18,271) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | -19.18K (-51.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (15.7%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 8.82K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| 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.
Free AI anime portraits that adapt to your taste in four steps
After each choice the network updates its estimate of your taste, so the final illustration reflects the direction you steered toward rather than a random sample.
Portraits are built in four stages: choose an initial character, tune the color palette, refine details, then pick a finishing pose.
Version 2 expanded the model to draw male characters and to render illustrated backgrounds behind your character.
Every Waifu Labs character can be brought into Arrowmancer, the studio's own character game, tying creation to play.
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.
One canvas for AI images, video, characters and sound
One canvas for AI images, video, characters and sound
Free anime AI art with millions of community models
Free anime AI art with millions of community models
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.
Design your own AI companion with chat, voice, images and video
Design your own AI companion with chat, voice, images and video
