DeepSeek records 372,761,591 monthly visits with +4.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. WaveSpeedAI records 2,164,832 monthly visits with +22.9% growth and Paid pricing.
High-efficiency open-weight and hosted reasoning AI powered by DeepSeek-V4 and R1 at ultra-low token costs.
One API for 1,000+ AI image, video, audio and 3D models
| Dimension / Metric | ||
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | wavespeed.ai |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 2.16M (2,164,832) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +15.36M (+4.3%) | +403.48K (+22.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (17.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 1.3M |
| 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.
One API for 1,000+ AI image, video, audio and 3D models
One API key and one SDK reach text-to-image, image editing, text-to-video, image-to-video, avatar, speech, music, 3D and LLM models, so you stop stitching together vendors.
Optimised GPU clusters aim for sub-second image generation and up to 4x faster video rendering, with a claimed 99.99% uptime.
Direct cinematic shots from a prompt with camera moves, film looks by genre and era, colour palettes and lighting controls.
Run any supported model from the terminal or from an AI agent, and use a desktop app when you would rather click than code.
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.
SpecialistDelivers privacy-focused developer APIs and open-source models, but prioritizes unthrottled text generation over expansive media pipelines.
SpecialistDelivers privacy-focused developer APIs and open-source models, but prioritizes unthrottled text generation over expansive media pipelines.
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.
SpecialistOffers multi-modal generation tools and developer APIs, but leans heavier toward browser-based consumer creative workflows.
SpecialistOffers multi-modal generation tools and developer APIs, but leans heavier toward browser-based consumer creative workflows.
SpecialistAI image and video generation for production-ready creative assets
SpecialistAI image and video generation for production-ready creative assets
