Category: DeepSeek Developer Guides

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SDKs and direct clients

• DeepSeek with Python covers synchronous and asynchronous clients, streaming, structured output, tools, errors, and deployment patterns.
• OpenAI SDK with DeepSeek explains compatible surfaces, provider differences, and migration checks.

Model features

• Thinking mode explains effort controls, reasoning content, streaming, tool-call history, and token budgets.
• JSON output covers response formatting, validation, truncation, and empty-content handling.
• Tool calls and function calling covers tool definitions, argument validation, multiple calls, and execution safety.
• Context caching explains repeated prefixes, cache-hit fields, cost interpretation, and isolation.

Testing and production operations

• DeepSeek API error codes explains authentication, balance, parameter, rate, server, and overload failures.
• DeepSeek API rate limits covers concurrency, HTTP 429 handling, queues, retries, and keep-alive behavior.

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