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DeepSeek vs. Competitors: Which AI Tool Should You Choose?

Tejashree Salvi
5 min readFeb 9, 2025

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The AI landscape is crowded with tools promising to revolutionize productivity, coding, and data analysis. But how does DeepSeek — a rising star in the AI space — stack up against giants like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and IBM Watson? In this blog, we’ll compare features, pricing, and real-world performance to help you pick the right tool for your needs.

Overview of DeepSeek

DeepSeek uses a mixture–of–experts (MoE) approach. Instead of activating all of its 671 billion parameters at once, only about 37 billion are activated per query, allowing for competitive performance on tasks like coding, math problem–solving, and logical reasoning. Its open–source nature further enables developers to customize and deploy the model in niche applications — a real draw for cost–sensitive projects.

Architecture & Cost Efficiency

DeepSeek:

  • Architecture: Mixture–of–Experts (MoE) with selective parameter activation
  • Cost: Trained at roughly one–tenth the cost of leading models
  • Customization: Open–source code allows for deep customization, ideal for technical users on a budget

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Tejashree Salvi
Tejashree Salvi

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