
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. Whimsical records 966,895 monthly visits with -18.7% growth and Freemium pricing.

The collaborative whiteboard built for product builders
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | deepseek.com | whimsical.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 372.76M (372,761,591) | 966.9K (966,895) |
| MoM Traffic Delta |
| +15.36M (+4.3%) |
| -222.85K (-18.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (50.5%) | 🇮🇳 India (19%) |
|---|
| Direct Visits / mo | 291.59M | 602.36K |
|---|
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.7 |
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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.

The collaborative whiteboard built for product builders
AI Flowcharts, AI Mind Maps and AI Wireframes convert a short text prompt into structured, fully editable diagrams, branched mind maps, or web and mobile wireflows — no manual drawing required.
Boards host diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps, wireframes, embedded media and documents side by side, so a whole product narrative lives in a single shareable file.
Multiple teammates edit the same board simultaneously with live cursors, thread comments attached to specific objects, and mention-based notifications.
Drag-and-drop UI components let teams sketch screens, link them into clickable flows and iterate on product ideas before engineering commits to a build.

Provides stronger multi-modal reasoning and agentic tools, but lacks DeepSeek's ultra-low-cost API pricing.
#1
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.
Industry standard collaborative whiteboarding with massive template libraries, but less streamlined for rapid AI diagram generation.

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.
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.
Industry standard collaborative whiteboarding with massive template libraries, but less streamlined for rapid AI diagram generation.
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.