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Our own reachability checks, run from this server every five minutes. This is a single-vantage reachability monitor and is separate from the multi-region research runs described in the reliability methodology, which are made on a different schedule. A component can answer and still be having trouble, and a failure here can be a network fault at our end. This is not an official DeepSeek status page.

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Current availability

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DeepSeek API

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The API host answering a plain request. No key is sent.

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DeepSeek chat

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The public web chat, as far as its sign-in page.

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DeepSeek docs

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The public developer documentation.

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Seek-Chat

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This site, checked from the server it runs on.

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Insufficient data 2 of 90 days observed 78 ms last round trip

Last checked September 7, 2026, 22:53 UTC. Results are cached; this page does not call the API when you load it.

All good Slow or intermittent Failures No data

What to do while DeepSeek is down

  • Do not repeat the request in a loop. Repeated requests can add load and create duplicate work. Follow the service guidance and use bounded retries.
  • Copy your prompt out before refreshing. Unsent text is frequently lost when a session is re-established.
  • If the chat is unavailable, check the API separately. An API-based application may still work, but gateway reachability alone does not establish this. Only a successful authorized request confirms completion for that model, account, and moment; do not expose an API key in browser code.
  • Follow the official incident updates. If no recovery time is given, wait before checking again. Do not assume a particular outage duration from this page.

How this page checks DeepSeek status

This page combines two sources. The first is DeepSeek’s official incident information, which is authoritative for confirmed outages but only updates once DeepSeek has acknowledged an issue. The second is our own independent reachability checks against the public web chat and the API gateway, which provide a separate observation of whether an endpoint responded. They do not establish successful model generation or diagnose the cause of a failure.

Neither source is perfect on its own. A connection problem on your side can look like an outage here, and a partial incident affecting one region may not appear in either. Seek-Chat.com is an independent resource and is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with DeepSeek.

For the measurement definitions and available evidence, see our DeepSeek reliability methodology and data coverage. Check the stated observation window and coverage before interpreting any figure; the methodology is not proof that multi-region measurements have been collected.

What has happened with DeepSeek recently?

Not every report of DeepSeek “not working” is an outage. Several platform changes landed between late July and late August 2026, and some of them produce errors that look exactly like downtime. Check this list before assuming the service is down.

DateWhat changedWhy it can look like an outage
July 24, 2026The legacy model names deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner were discontinued, three months after the notice published on April 24, 2026.Any integration still calling those names fails while the web app works normally.
July 31, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Flash entered public beta on the API as deepseek-v4-flash.Apps pinned to the older preview name can error until they are updated.
August 13, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Pro reached general availability across the app, web and API as deepseek-v4-pro, with three thinking levels (low, high, max) and native support for the Responses API format.Response shapes and mode names changed, which can break strict client parsing.
August 16, 2026New API pricing took effect, using a peak and off-peak structure in which off-peak requests are charged at half price.A billing change, not an availability change.
August 21, 2026DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp was released as deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp.An experimental model can behave inconsistently without the platform being down.

Source: DeepSeek’s official API change log at api-docs.deepseek.com/updates. Checked August 29, 2026.

DeepSeek’s own published uptime, recorded August 29, 2026

These are not our measurements. The nine figures below are DeepSeek’s own, published by DeepSeek on status.deepseek.com and copied from that page on August 29, 2026. They cover part of August 2026 only, and they were recorded before the month ended, so they are a dated snapshot rather than a final full-month availability report. We have not re-read the source since that date and we cannot audit how DeepSeek calculates them.

How this differs from the availability panel at the top of this page. That panel is our own reachability monitor, running from one server every five minutes. It currently reports Insufficient data for every component because it has only two days of observations in a ninety-day window, and we will not publish a percentage until at least thirty of those days carry real measurements. The two things measure different subjects, over different periods, by different methods. A number in the table below says nothing about what our monitor has seen, and the panel above says nothing about the accuracy of DeepSeek’s figures:

ServiceUptime DeepSeek showed for August 2026, read on August 29, 2026
DeepSeek V4 Pro API99.92%
DeepSeek V4 Flash API99.81%
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp API100.00%
Chat service99.84%
Instant mode99.79%
Expert mode99.76%
Vision mode100.00%
File upload service100.00%
Search service99.84%

Source: status.deepseek.com, read on August 29, 2026. The service names in the left column are DeepSeek’s own. Neither this table nor our own panel predicts the outcome of your next request.