DeepSeek vs Yandex

DeepSeek — Foundation Models · Private · $50B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Yandex — Application · Public · 2 of 2 figures sourced

Relationship

DeepSeek Harness and SourceCraft Code Assistant do comparable work on agentic coding; Yandex's scale not recorded.

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

5 of 6 capabilitiesShared product type

5 of 6 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, agentic coding, code generation and 2 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and developer tool.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldDeepSeekYandex
Size$50B valuationnot disclosed
Employees16036,991 Yandex has 231× more
Founded20231997 26 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryFoundation ModelsApplication
Stack layerApplication, Developer tool, Model APIAPI service, Application, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersHangzhou, ChinaKaliningrad, Russia

Capability overlap

Shared · 5

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode generationModel inferenceText generation

Not verified for Yandex · 1

Summarization

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

Not verified for DeepSeek · 13

Code reviewCustomer supportData analysisDocument extractionImage generationModel hostingModel trainingKnowledge retrievalSpeech to textText to speechTranslationVoice agentSearch answers

Recorded for Yandex. 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.

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).

Yandex

Application

Alice AIApplication

Yandex's consumer AI assistant and chat product, which answers questions with web search, analyses uploaded files, and generates text and images from Yandex's own generative models.

Yandex SpeechSenseApplication

Speech-analytics service that transcribes and analyses voice and text customer conversations to surface topics, sentiment and service-quality metrics.

Developer tool

SourceCraft Code AssistantDeveloper tool

Yandex's AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering completion, chat, code review and an agent mode that carries out development tasks from natural-language instructions.

No counterpart

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

Model API

DeepSeek API PlatformModel API

API access to DeepSeek's chat and reasoning models.

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

API service

Yandex SpeechKitAPI service

Speech recognition and speech synthesis API built on the technology behind the Alice assistant, used for voice assistants, call-centre automation and service-quality monitoring.

Yandex TranslateAPI service

Neural machine translation API supporting more than 100 languages, sold as a Yandex Cloud service.

Yandex Vision OCRAPI service

Computer-vision API that recognises and extracts text, tables, handwriting, document fields and licence plates from images and PDFs in 48 languages.

Platform

Yandex Cloud AI StudioPlatform

Yandex Cloud platform that serves Yandex's generative models (YandexGPT, YandexART, embeddings, classifiers) over an API, with fine-tuning, a model gallery and agent/assistant tooling.

Yandex DataSpherePlatform

End-to-end managed ML development environment with notebooks, distributed training jobs and one-click model deployment on elastically scaled CPU/GPU resources.