Honestly, I’ve used both, and it really depends on what you’re looking for. For general conversational help, writing, brainstorming, and problem solving ChatGPT wins for me every time. But DeepSeek feels more specialized when it comes to targeted semantic search and digging through document stacks. I wouldn’t say one is simply better than the other more like different strengths.
One thing I noticed: DeepSeek’s results feel more factual when it’s clearly indexing a set of docs, whereas ChatGPT is stronger at creative reasoning and context juggling.