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DeepSeek API status, outages & reliability

#6 of 11 LLM API providersOperational

The DeepSeek API gives developers OpenAI-compatible access to DeepSeek's chat and reasoning models.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days DeepSeek API had 100% effective uptime across 26 status page incidents (3 partial or major outages).

76.0/100Reliability scoreVisit DeepSeek API ↗

Is DeepSeek API down right now?

No, DeepSeek API is up and running.

  • DeepSeek API's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 2 DeepSeek API pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official DeepSeek API status page ↗

Uptime (90d)100%<1m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)264.8 per 30 days
Major / partial outages3
Avg time to resolve—
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026: 100% uptime, 4 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 5, 2026 – Aug 6, 2026: no incidentsAug 7, 2026: 100% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 8, 2026 – Aug 9, 2026: no incidentsAug 10, 2026: 100% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 11, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026: no incidentsAug 14, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 15, 2026 – Aug 18, 2026: no incidentsAug 19, 2026: 100% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 20, 2026: no incidentsAug 21, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 22, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 23, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026: no incidentsSep 2, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Sep 3, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026: no incidentsSep 14, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Sep 15, 2026: 100% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 16, 2026: no incidentsSep 17, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 18, 2026 – Sep 19, 2026: no incidentsSep 20, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 21, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026: no incidentsSep 23, 2026: 100% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 24, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026: no incidentsOct 1, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 2, 2026 – Oct 7, 2026: no incidentsOct 8, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026: no incidentsOct 12, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 13, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026: no incidentsOct 15, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 16, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026: no incidentsOct 27, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 28, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago100% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about DeepSeek API's reliability

  • Since Aug 4, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, DeepSeek API published 26 incidents on its status page, 3 of them partial or major outages.
  • Incidents most often began on a Tuesday (7 of 26, UTC).
  • DeepSeek API's 90-day uptime of 100% is above the average for LLM API providers (99.35%).

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
100
100% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
30
4.84 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
50
No resolved incidents in window
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

0481216DecJan ’26FebMarAprMayJunJul13 degraded performance incidents13Aug2 major outage incidents6 degraded performance incidents8Sep1 major outage incident4 degraded performance incidents5OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of DeepSeek API's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

DeepSeek API incident history (last 90 days)

Source: DeepSeek API status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS

Our independent monitoring

We check these public DeepSeek API pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
API models endpoint (unauthenticated)Up 100%338 ms
API docsUp 100%126 ms

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DeepSeek API status FAQ

Is DeepSeek API down right now?

No, DeepSeek API is up and running. DeepSeek API's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 2 of the DeepSeek API pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is DeepSeek API?

DeepSeek API has a reliability score of 76.0 out of 100, ranking #6 of 11 LLM API providers. Over the last 90 days it had 100% effective uptime.

How often does DeepSeek API have outages?

DeepSeek API published 26 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (3 partial or major outages) and 26 in the past 12 months.

Does DeepSeek API have a status page?

Yes. DeepSeek API's official status page is status.deepseek.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.