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What to do when DeepSeek is down
Switch to another host for the same DeepSeek model
DeepSeek-V3 and R1 are open-weight models, so multiple gateways serve them on infrastructure that has nothing to do with api.deepseek.com. If first-party DeepSeek is down or throttled, repoint your client to Together AI, Fireworks AI, or OpenRouter and keep the same model. OpenRouter is especially handy because it can route across several DeepSeek hosts automatically, so one provider's outage does not stop your requests.
Fall back to a comparable frontier API
If you just need a reliable reasoning or chat model and DeepSeek specifically is not a hard requirement, route to a comparable hosted API. Claude, GPT, and Gemini all cover general chat and reasoning workloads and run on entirely separate infrastructure, so a DeepSeek outage will not take them down with it. Keep an adapter layer so swapping the base URL and model name is a one-line change.
Get notified when status changes
Instead of refreshing this page during an incident, subscribe to alerts and let TensorFeed tell you the moment DeepSeek flips between operational, degraded, and down. You can watch every major AI provider from one dashboard, which makes it easy to confirm whether the problem is DeepSeek alone or a wider outage hitting several APIs at once.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is DeepSeek down right now?
The live indicator at the top of this page is the answer. A green dot means the DeepSeek API and web chat are operational, amber means degraded (slower responses, intermittent timeouts, or rate-limit errors), and red means a confirmed outage. We refresh the reading from DeepSeek's official status feed every couple of minutes, so trust the colored badge over any cached impression you have from a few minutes ago.
How do I check DeepSeek status?
Start with the live badge on this page, which mirrors DeepSeek's official status page at status.deepseek.com. If you want to confirm the failure is on DeepSeek's side and not your own, send a minimal request to api.deepseek.com and watch the HTTP code: a 5xx or a connection timeout points at DeepSeek, while a 401 or 402 points at your API key or account balance. The web chat at chat.deepseek.com and the API can fail independently, so check whichever surface you actually use.
What should I do when DeepSeek is down?
Because DeepSeek publishes open weights, you are not locked to api.deepseek.com. The fastest fallback is to point the same model name at a third-party host that serves DeepSeek-V3 or R1, such as Together AI, Fireworks AI, or OpenRouter, since their inference runs on separate infrastructure. If you just need a working reasoning or chat model and do not care that it is DeepSeek specifically, route to Claude, GPT, or Gemini instead. Add retry with backoff so transient 5xx errors recover on their own.
How often does DeepSeek go down, and how reliable is it?
DeepSeek's API is generally stable during normal load, but it has a track record of capacity strain during demand spikes. After its models went viral the platform saw stretches of degraded performance, slow first-token latency, intermittent server-busy errors, and temporary pauses on new signups. Treat short degraded windows under heavy load as the most likely failure mode rather than full hard outages. We avoid quoting a specific uptime percentage because DeepSeek does not publish a contractual SLA for the standard API.
Which DeepSeek models and services does this page cover?
This page tracks the first-party DeepSeek platform: the api.deepseek.com endpoint serving the DeepSeek-V3 series (deepseek-chat) and the DeepSeek-R1 reasoning line (deepseek-reasoner), plus the web chat and mobile apps. A common point of confusion is that many people run DeepSeek models through other providers; if you access DeepSeek-V3 or R1 via Together, Fireworks, OpenRouter, or a self-hosted copy of the open weights, an outage there is unrelated to this status. Note that DeepSeek's primary infrastructure is hosted in China, which can add latency for distant regions even when the service is fully up.
Where can I see DeepSeek incident history?
DeepSeek's official status page at status.deepseek.com keeps a running log of past incidents and maintenance windows, which is the authoritative record of what broke and when. For a cross-provider view, TensorFeed's status dashboard tracks DeepSeek alongside every other major AI API so you can tell a DeepSeek-only incident apart from a broader internet or upstream event. You can also subscribe to change alerts so you are notified the moment the status flips.