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DeepSeek status: API, auth, latency & outage reports

Operational
Last probe 18 min ago·2 surfaces
Likely your sideMEDIUM confidence
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100.0%
24h Uptime
234ms
p50 Latency
450ms
p95 Latency
0
Incidents (30d)

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Surface Health

DeepSeek APIOperational
HTTP 200p50 234ms18m ago
DeepSeek ChatOperational
HTTP 200p50 234ms18m ago

Uptime — last 24h

100.0%

Latency — last 24h (p50 per 30 min slot)

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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.

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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