DeepSeek vs Opik

Which should you choose?

DeepSeek and Opik serve entirely different purposes. DeepSeek is a consumer/developer AI model for generating responses, reasoning, and code. Opik is a backend monitoring platform for teams evaluating LLM applications. Pick DeepSeek if you need a capable, cost-effective language model accessible via chat or API. Pick Opik if you're an ML team building LLM products and need structured evaluation, tracing, and optimization tools. They're complementary rather than competitive—you might use DeepSeek as the model *within* a system you monitor via Opik.