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Claude
✓ verifiedFreemium
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
22M visits/mo231K saves
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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.
430M visits/mo
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Code Arena
✓ verifiedFree
Side-by-side arena to compare AI coding models and build multi-file apps, with a public leaderboard and battle mode.
35M visits/mo201 saves
Pricing
Free: $0/mo
Pro: $17/mo (annual; $20 monthly)
Max: from $100/mo
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No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Conversational writing and editing
- ✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
- ✦Data analysis and visualization
- ✦Web search plus memory across chats
- ✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
- ✦Extended thinking for complex tasks
- ✦Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
- ✦Open API platform
- ✦V-series and R-series reasoning models
- ✦DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
- ✦OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
- ✦Extensive published model lineup
- ✦Head-to-head model comparison
- ✦Battle mode matchups
- ✦Public model leaderboard
- ✦Multi-file app generation
- ✦File uploads as input
Use cases
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Free AI chat and assistance
- →Building apps via API
- →Reasoning and coding tasks
- →Low-cost LLM inference
- →Choosing the best coding model
- →Benchmarking AI code quality
- →Prototyping small apps
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