DeepSeek AI Usage Stats

Founded in 2023, DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup known for its new chatbot beating many existing models and rivaling dominance of ChatGPT.

Since the public release of DeepSeek-R1 on January 20, the startup attracted worldwide attention thanks to its reported cost-efficient model outpacing leading US-based AI chatbots.

Today, DeepSeek ranks as the #1 most downloaded app in the App Store in over 156 countries and has an average of 22.15 million daily active users worldwide.

AI chatbot by DeepSeek is currently one of the fastest-growing tech products but as a private company, they don’t disclose many details. We plan to update this page as more information is available.

Key DeepSeek Stats

• As of January 2025, DeepSeek had 33.7 million monthly active users worldwide.
• As of January 2025, DeepSeek reached an average of 22.15 million daily active users globally.
• China, India and Indonesia are the largest markets for DeepSeek accounting for 51.24% of DeepSeek monthly active users in January 2025.
• DeekSeek website unique visitors per week amounted to 15.9 million.

DeepSeek Monthly Active Users

In January 2025, DeepSeek had 33.7 million monthly active users across the world, which makes it the #4 most popular AI app worldwide by active user base.

Source: Aicpb.com

DeepSeek Daily Active Users

In January 2025, DeepSeek had 22.15 million daily active users across the world.

Source: Aicpb.com

DeepSeek Monthly Active Users by Country

According to latest data, the top 3 markets of DeepSeek are China, India and Indonesia, combined accounting for 51.24% of monthly active users worldwide.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of top 5 countries with the largest share of monthly active users as of January 2025:

Source: Aicpb.com

DeepSeek App Downloads

As of February 5 2025, the DeepSeek AI app has been downloaded over 21.66 million times worldwide across Google Play and App Store to date.

Downloads from the DeepSeek AI app from Google Play amounted to 15.22 million times, with the remaining 6.45 million downloads from the App Store.

Here’s a detailed breakdown of DeepSeek app daily downloads since January 20 2025 across Google Play and App Store:

Source: Appfigures

DeepSeek Website Unique Visitors

As of January 20 – 26 2025, DeekSeek had 15.9 million unique website visitors, up from 5.1 million unique website visitors during the previous week (January 13 – 19 2025).

Source: Semrush

DeepSeek User Demographics

According to the latest estimates, DeepSeek’s audience mainly consists of younger users aged 18-24 years old accounting for 44.4% of total audience among Android users and 37.0% among iOS users.

Here’s detailed breakdown of DeepSeekers by age across Android and iOS devices:

On both platforms, DeepSeek’s user base leans male.

Source: Appfigures

DeepSeek Website Unique Visitors by Country

As of January 20 – 26, 2025,the US, China and India are the largest markets for DeepSeek accounting for 32.62% of all unique visitors to the DeepSeek website.

Here’s a detailed breakdown by country, including unique visitors share:

Source: Semrush

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