Anthropic vs DeepSeek
Relationship
Both consumer assistants in one measured market; Claude holds 10.3% while DeepSeek sits under 5% — third place against the measured tail.
6 of 16 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 3 more.
Ludbee capability tags · from the product recordsShared product type — Both ship application, developer tool and model API.
Ludbee product recordsSmaller scale — DeepSeek: $50B valuation, against Anthropic's $965B valuation.
Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimateSourced competitor — “Until January, ChatGPT commanded over 50% market share, but by May's end, it had fallen to 46.4% thanks to the rise of Gemini (27.7%) and Claude (10.3%). Other assistants, including Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Meta AI, have less than 5…”
techcrunch.com · checked 2026-08-25Use an everyday AI assistant — Rivals on this job — Get answers, writing, search and everyday help from a general-purpose assistant app.
Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edgeAligned comparison
Capability overlap
Shared · 6
Not verified for DeepSeek · 10
Recorded for Anthropic. DeepSeek’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
DeepSeek has no capability Anthropic lacks, among the 6 recorded here.
Products, side by side
Hand-checked pairing
Anthropic
Application
Assistant for chat, document analysis and coding, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps.
Lets users collaborate with Claude to create on-brand visual work (decks, prototypes, wireframes, marketing collateral) with design-system import and Claude Code integration via /design-sync.
Desktop application for scientific research that runs analyses, searches scientific databases and traces work from data wrangling through to publication.
Application that scans codebases for high-severity vulnerabilities, validates findings by adversarial verification and recommends patches for review, with a companion Claude Code plugin.
Claude working inside Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook with context carried across the documents — preserving templates and house styles and showing every edit as tracked changes, highlighted cells or draft emails.
Claude tagged as @Claude inside Slack threads and channels: it reads thread context and replies in real time, analyses conversations, pulls data, drafts content, monitors channels, triages alerts and runs standing instructions without leaving Slack.
Developer tool
Python and TypeScript library that runs the same agent loop, tools and context management that power Claude Code, so developers can embed the loop in their own process rather than calling the API directly.
Model API
DeepSeek
Application
Assistant app for chat, reasoning and code questions, built on DeepSeek's own models.
Developer tool
Open-source framework for building agents from composable plugins, distributed under the MIT license as a developer-preview initiative (install via `npx @deepseek-ai/dsh web` or clone from GitHub).
Model API
No counterpart
Anthropic sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for DeepSeek yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.
AI agent
Coding agent that works on a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and a desktop app.
Agentic task app in which Claude works asynchronously across a user's files and tools toward a stated goal, checked in on from desktop, web or phone.
Browser extension that lets Claude act inside Chrome on the user's behalf — reading pages, clicking, typing and filling forms to work through multi-step web tasks without approving each step, with the user keeping control of what it may do.
Agent platform
Hosted API offering a pre-built configurable agent harness with managed sandboxes and persistent sessions for long-running asynchronous agent tasks, billed separately from token usage.