DeepSeek vs SenseTime

DeepSeek — Foundation Models · Private · $50B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  SenseTime — Foundation Models · Public · $7.7B mkt cap · 4 of 5 figures sourced

Relationship

DeepSeek API Platform and SenseNova do comparable work on code generation; both also serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API, code with an AI assistant and draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 6 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

3 of 6 capabilities — Shares code generation, model inference and text generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and model API.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — SenseTime: $7.7B market cap, against DeepSeek's $50B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldDeepSeekSenseTime
Size$50B valuation$7.7B mkt cap different basis
Employees1602,472 SenseTime has 15× more
Founded20232014 9 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryFoundation ModelsFoundation Models match
Stack layerApplication, Developer tool, Model APIApplication, Hardware, Infrastructure service, Model API, Platform, Robot
HeadquartersHangzhou, ChinaShanghai, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Code generationModel inferenceText generation

Not verified for SenseTime · 3

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingSummarization

Recorded for DeepSeek. SenseTime’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for DeepSeek · 11

AI compute hardwareAvatar videoData analysisGPU cloudImage generationModel hostingModel trainingRobot controlVideo analyticsVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for SenseTime. DeepSeek’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

DeepSeek

Application

DeepSeekApplication

Assistant app for chat, reasoning and code questions, built on DeepSeek's own models.

Model API

DeepSeek API PlatformModel API

API access to DeepSeek's chat and reasoning models.

SenseTime

Application

CapiApplication

SenseTime's AI-powered personal-finance assistant (the audit's candidate name 'Kapi Money' is a mistranscription of the real product, Capi, which the vendor's own announcement distinguishes from the similarly-named Kapi/Kapi Cam camera app).

Kapi CamApplication

AI-powered retro-style (Y2K/CCD) photo and video camera app, distinct from Capi (SenseTime's finance assistant) despite the similar name.

Kapi HealthApplication

AI-powered health-tracking companion app (sleep, HRV, activity strain and recovery) built on Apple HealthKit data, from the same publisher shell (TETRAS.AI HONGKONG CO., LIMITED) as the existing Kapi Cam and Kapi Money records.

Office Raccoon (RaccoonWork)Application

AI office productivity assistant (data analysis, AI-editable PPT generation, task planning) built on SenseTime's large language model, distributed via web, iOS app and an OpenClaw agent-skill integration.

Seko AgentApplication

AI video generation tool for creating and editing consistent multi-episode video series.

SenseAvatarApplication

Creates digital-human videos and livestreams from a source image/script.

Model API

SenseNovaModel API

SenseTime's foundation model family and the API platform that serves it.

No counterpart

DeepSeek sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for SenseTime yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Developer tool

DeepSeek HarnessDeveloper 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).

SenseTime sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for DeepSeek yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

SenseFoundryPlatform

Computer-vision platform for city and enterprise deployments, covering video analysis, access control and traffic management.

Infrastructure service

Elastic Compute ServiceInfrastructure service

Rentable accelerated compute instances for AI development and inference on SenseCore.

Elastic Container PlatformInfrastructure service

Managed Kubernetes platform for running AI workloads on SenseCore.

SenseCoreInfrastructure service

SenseTime's AI compute service, providing training and inference capacity on its own data centres.

SenseScale SSPInfrastructure service

Manages heterogeneous AI development, training and inference compute across SenseCore's infrastructure.

Hardware

SenseMart GOHardware

Computer-vision-based automated retail checkout system.

SenseNebula PassHardware

Facial-recognition physical access-control system.

Robot

SenseRobotRobot

AI-powered chess (and board game) robot that teaches and plays against a human opponent, sold as a consumer hardware product on its own dedicated domain.