Hugging Face
80 pts
1 wins
VS
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DeepSeek
95 pts
1 wins
🏆 Overall, DeepSeek offers more free value (1/6 categories)
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Category
Hugging Face
DeepSeek
Free Tier
✅ Varies by model
✅ 50 requests/day
Free API
✅ Free tier
✅ $5
Rate Limit
Varies
2 RPM
Open Source
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
Free Models
1
4
GitHub Stars
⭐ 160,130
⭐ 102,923
🧠 Model Details
Hugging Face 1 models Various Open Models
Thousands of free open-source models available
DeepSeek 4 models DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Released April 2026, 1.6T param MoE (49B active), 1M context, thinking/non-thinking modes
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Lightweight V4, 284B params (13B active), 1M context, excellent value
DeepSeek-V3
Previous flagship, still available
DeepSeek-R1
Reasoning model, strong at math/code