DeepSeek status: API, auth, latency & outage reports

DeepSeek is operational right now. DownForAI checks DeepSeek every ~75 minutes across 2 monitored surfaces, with 0 community reports in the last 24 hours.

Operational

Last probe 6 min ago·2 surfaces

Likely your sideMEDIUM confidence

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100.0%

24h Uptime

174ms

p50 Latency

360ms

p95 Latency

Incidents (30d)

Current Status

✅

Operational

Everything works normally

✓Checked by our probes · 45ms

Verified 5m ago

✓No major incident reported

ⓘNo reports in the last 24h

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Surface Health

DeepSeek APIOperational

HTTP 200p50 174ms5m ago

DeepSeek ChatOperational

HTTP 200p50 174ms20m ago

Uptime — last 24h

100.0%

Latency — last 20 probes

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Is DeepSeek down for everyone?

Likely local or client-side issue

Our probes see normal responses. The issue is likely on your end or in your network path.

Moderate confidence

Probe summary (2 surfaces)

All surfaces operational as of last probe.

Signals detected

All monitored surfaces operational
No recent user reports
Check your network, credentials, or rate limits

Incident history (30d)

✓No incidents recorded in the past 30 days.

Reported symptoms

No user reports for DeepSeek in the last 24 hours.

Known error signatures

Common failure patterns and how to diagnose them

Provider details

Chinese AI lab producing open-weight frontier models (DeepSeek V3, R1 reasoning, Coder). Direct web/API access at deepseek.com; models also hosted on multiple third-party inference providers.

Community channels

⚫ deepseek-ai✓🟠 r/DeepSeek✓✕ @deepseek_ai✓

What we monitor

chat.deepseek.com — Consumer web interface

DeepSeek mobile apps — Mobile backend

DeepSeek API — Developer API

Status page segments

WebAPIMobile

Model families

DeepSeek V3 (general chat)DeepSeek R1 (reasoning)DeepSeek Coder

Common limits & quotas

OpenAI-compatible API with per-token pricing
Rate limits per account; consult api-docs.deepseek.com for current tier structure

Ecosystem dependencies

DeepSeek models are open-weight — many third-party inference providers host themCursor, Continue.dev, and OpenRouter offer DeepSeek model routing

Operator notes

Unlike closed-weight providers, DeepSeek has a real 'reseller market' — Together AI, Fireworks AI, DeepInfra, Groq all host DeepSeek R1 and V3 with different reliability profiles
When direct DeepSeek API is down, the fastest fallback is a base-URL swap to a third-party host
DeepSeek API is OpenAI-compatible: client libraries work with minimal code changes

Diagnostic signals

$ curl https://api.deepseek.com/v1/models -H "Authorization: Bearer $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY" — reachability$ OpenAI-compatible: existing OpenAI client code works by changing base_url$ Fallback test: swap to https://api.together.xyz/v1 with Together API key to test same model

Fallback alternatives

What to use if this service is down

Direct DeepSeek API is degraded

Together AI, Fireworks AI, or Groq host DeepSeek models as OpenAI-compatible APIs

Base URL swap

Easy switch

All DeepSeek paths unavailable — reasoning workloads

OpenAI o1/o3 or Claude Opus can reduce downtime

Easy switch

Self-hosted resilience needed

DeepSeek models are open-weight, can be run via vLLM or Ollama

Major migration

Coding workloads specifically

Qwen 2.5 Coder or Llama 3.3 (via Groq/Together) are alternatives

Easy switch

How we monitor

downforai.com probes each AI service every 2–5 minutes from multiple independent locations. We measure HTTP response codes, latency (p50 & p95), and endpoint availability across the surfaces listed above. Status is classified as Operational, Degraded, or Outage based on a weighted combination of probe results. Uptime is calculated over 30-minute buckets and the last 24 hours. User reports are factored into our diagnosis as a secondary signal. We are independent of all providers listed and receive no compensation to report any particular status.

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