LLM API Providers · reliability comparison
Cohere vs DeepSeek API: which is more reliable? (2026)
Cohere is more reliable than DeepSeek API, scoring 91.6 vs 76.0 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Cohere reported 2 incidents and DeepSeek API reported 26, with effective uptime of 99.94% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Cohere | DeepSeek API |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.6 | 76.0 |
| Rank (LLM API providers) | #2 | #6 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.94% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 2 | 26 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 3 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 40m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Cohere and DeepSeek API differ
- DeepSeek API reported 13× as many incidents as Cohere over the last 90 days (26 vs 2).
- DeepSeek API had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Cohere.
90-day uptime
Cohere
DeepSeek API
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Cohere incidents
- Degraded performanceSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 22m
Affected: embeddings, rerank-english-v3.0, embed-v4.0, command-a-reasoning-08-2025, rerank-v4.0-fast, All Endpoints
- Partial outageAug 5, 2026 · resolved in 57m
Documentation Content Loading Issues
Affected: Docs
Recent DeepSeek API incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Major outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
DeepSeek 网页/API 部分中断（DeepSeek Web/API Partially Unavailable）
- Degraded performanceOct 12, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 8, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 1, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceSep 23, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Other LLM API providers to consider
- Perplexity API · #1 · 99.94% uptime
- Groq · #3 · 99.94% uptime
- Cerebras Inference · #4 · 99.88% uptime
- xAI API · #5 · 99.76% uptime