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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 18 min ago·2 surfaces
Probe-monitoredLow confidence
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100.0%
24h Uptime
267ms
p50 Network Latency
450ms
p95 Network Latency
0
Incidents (30d)

DownForAI monitors DeepSeek across two surfaces: DeepSeek API and DeepSeek Chat. Current status: operational — all surfaces are responding normally. Measured uptime over the last 24 hours: 100.0%. Median response time (24 h): 247 ms; p95: 401 ms.

No inference incidents have been tracked for DeepSeek since monitoring began, and no community reports were submitted in the last 24 hours. Automated checks continue on the configured schedule.

Data confidence: LowLast checked 18 min ago · 2 monitored surfaces · 2 with 24 h latency data

Current Status

Operational
Everything works normally
Checked by our probes · 30ms
Verified 17m ago
No major incident reported
No reports in the last 24h

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0reports in the last 24 hours

Surface Health

DeepSeek APIOperational
HTTP 200p50 247ms17m ago
DeepSeek ChatOperational
HTTP 200p50 287ms47m ago

Uptime — last 24h

100.0%

Network latency — last 20 probes

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What DownForAI can verify about DeepSeek

No confirmed provider-side issue detected
DownForAI currently sees DeepSeek as operational based on available monitoring signals.
Signal source: public surface check · Monitoring confidence: Low
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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.comConsumer web interface
DeepSeek mobile appsMobile backend
DeepSeek APIDeveloper 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 checks monitored AI service surfaces on a rotating schedule, roughly every 75 minutes per surface, from a single centralized probe infrastructure. For services with an official machine-readable status page, we use that official status signal when available. For other services, we perform a basic public-surface check. Some services block datacenter probes; in those cases we mark them as “Monitoring limited” instead of treating a failed probe as a confirmed outage. Status is classified as Operational, Degraded, or Outage. Network latency (check response time) measures how long the monitored endpoint took to respond to our probe — it is not model inference speed, time-to-first-token, or tokens-per-second performance. We are independent of all providers listed and receive no compensation to report any particular status.

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