Alternatives and competitors
Sites like DeepSeek
The 20 closest AI chatbots and LLMs alternatives to DeepSeek, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to DeepSeek? The closest matches are You.com, SpaceXAI and OpenAI. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About DeepSeek
DeepSeek deepseek.com
DeepSeek | Into the Unknown
DeepSeek is an AI research company focused on building world-leading general artificial intelligence. We develop and open-source frontier LLMs including DeepSeek-V4, DeepSeek-R1, and DeepSeek-Coder. Chat with DeepSeek AI or integrate via API.
Wikidata: large language model developed by DeepSeek
Summary by Claude
DeepSeek is an AI research company that develops open-weight large language models (such as DeepSeek-V4, R1 and Coder) and offers a free chatbot, mobile and desktop apps, and a paid developer API.
- Who it’s for
- Consumers and software developers
- Business model
- API usage fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to DeepSeek’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to DeepSeek
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to DeepSeek, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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You.com | Search and inference for AI
The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.
Very close cos 0.918 - 02
American artificial intelligence and social media division of SpaceX
Very close cos 0.900 - 03
American artificial intelligence research organization
Very close cos 0.899 - 04
Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
Close cos 0.890 - 05
DeepL AI Platform: Translation, Voice & API
Explore our AI suite and get more done: Translate speech, text, and media, or integrate the DeepL API.
Close cos 0.888 - 06
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Close cos 0.887 - 07
OpenRouter
The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts
Close cos 0.883 - 08
OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
OpenCode - The open source coding agent.
Close cos 0.881 - 09
ChatGPT: Chat, Work, Create & Code with AI
Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place. Get started for free or download the app.
Close cos 0.882 - 10
Grok
Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
Close cos 0.881 - 11
Mistral | #1 in Sovereign AI: Frontier Open Models You Own
Frontier open-weight models you own and control. Customize with Forge, deploy with Studio, run on-prem, your VPC, or our cloud.
Close cos 0.879 - 12
Qwen
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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Home \ Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Google
search engine by Google LLC
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Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
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Massive — Real-Time Web Access for AI
Massive is a web access API backed by millions of volunteer devices in 195+ countries. AI agents, models, and data pipelines use it to reach any site on the internet.
Close cos 0.873 - 18
Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. For math, science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music…
Close cos 0.874 - 19
Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Close cos 0.876 - 20
AI App and Website Builder | Replit
Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required.
Close cos 0.874
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to deepseek.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones DeepSeek uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What DeepSeek is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: aKMbXTVFRP9n2IlI1O3azNIxJMgMrrBOq_pB1w54MOknNcTop5b1xA==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services header server: AmazonS3
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what DeepSeek adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on deepseek.com 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on deepseek.com 16/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on deepseek.com 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on deepseek.com 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on deepseek.com 13/20
- Apple Business · not on deepseek.com 11/20
- HubSpot · not on deepseek.com 11/20
- Next.js 9/20
- React 9/20
- Stripe · not on deepseek.com 9/20
- OpenAI · not on deepseek.com 8/20
- Notion · not on deepseek.com 7/20
- Atlassian · not on deepseek.com 6/20
- Zendesk · not on deepseek.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on deepseek.com 5/20
- Zoom · not on deepseek.com 5/20