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DeepSeek API has been down most of the morning

Posted by RazzmatazzReal4129@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 54 comments

[https://status.deepseek.com/](https://status.deepseek.com/) Haven't been able to get a response the last couple hours.

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avitakesit@reddit

Deep seek fanboys is like if you bought a toy out of the 25 cent machine and expect it not to break in 10 seconds. Is this the fir st time youve interacted with a Chinese good or service?
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eatoteb@reddit

Sinophobia in big 2025
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avitakesit@reddit

Oh so you like illiberal one party authoritarian states who want to control every aspect of your life. Good for you, bro.
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eatoteb@reddit

Why is bro confusing China with North Korea. That sounds like USA in the next four years mate
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Pitiful-Diet-4819@reddit

The typical ignorant answer. Read the research bro if you are cultivated enough
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avitakesit@reddit

Is the research why they can't even keep it online? If inference is so efficient, they shouldn't have any problem right? But turns out, it's by far the least reliable service and they can't even protect it from ddos. Whoops looks like scaling to the billions of people who don't want to give you any money is hard. Who knew.
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raylalayla@reddit

It's good and people like good things, especially for the low low price of "for free"
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GloomyDare@reddit

This is 2025 bro, China is on top.
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markgvl@reddit

Still down on day 6
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Ambitious-Party-6538@reddit

In Aussie here, Ive been trying for 5 days and still can NOT access the API Platfrom.
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tenchakras@reddit

There appears to be a ddos attempt on them , wonder who set that in motion!
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Responsible_Oil4190@reddit

SAMe
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Vincent-SJ@reddit

A temporary solution would be using this one: [https://groq.com/groqcloud-makes-deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-available/](https://groq.com/groqcloud-makes-deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b-available/)
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ahtoshkaa@reddit

[Together ](https://api.together.xyz/playground/chat/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1)is better. They are using the full R1 model. Not the llama distill
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Vincent-SJ@reddit

$7/per 1M tokens, not bad, Replicated is $10.
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Careless-Awareness-4@reddit

Can you explain more fir the tech illiterate? Id like try it. 
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Vincent-SJ@reddit

import openai client = openai.Client( base_url="https://api.groq.com/openai/v1", api_key="gsk_123456" ) response = client.chat.completions.create( model="deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain blockchain security"}], temperature=0.7 # Controls creativity vs precision ) content = response.choices[0].message.content print(f"Content: {content}")
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klipche@reddit

deepseek sucks
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insomniaco@reddit

deepsuck™? 🙃
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Naive_Skill_2110@reddit

Nothing yet.
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danteDevino@reddit

if they can't beat you they ddos you lol 🤣
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unstoppableobstacle@reddit

Still not working for me: 7:27 am est
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crazyenterpz@reddit

It is still down or degraded now at Jan 28 at 4:30 pm I got one response for trivial say hello prompt. but no response for more complex prompts , where were working yesterday
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Careless-Awareness-4@reddit

I'm having the same problem. 😭
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Careless-Awareness-4@reddit

Is this an on-going malicious attack by the US? I haven't been able to edit my book for two days 😭 there's no way I'm going back to Chat GPT. The complexity of the suggestions I get far out perform Chat GPT.  I hope they get it fixed, ill wait patiently. After using Deep Seek, other models seem unsuitable for my prompts. 
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the_masterbuilder@reddit

Looks like the API service has been restored.
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MiddleOk5604@reddit

What region?
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freetreer20@reddit

we know who is attacking it.
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Unfair_Lunch9966@reddit

Will it be back?
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MiddleOk5604@reddit

It's down for me. Was working amazing on Sunday.
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Polyphemus10@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/zdp1frlujqfe1.png?width=1082&format=png&auto=webp&s=cea598c017e8ad53957f2bb014fb600d9f6036bc This is what is hiding behind that cloudflare protection...
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Various-Reading-6824@reddit

They are not ready for prime time yet.
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Hoodfu@reddit

Not a knock on Anthropic, but even my favorite api model Claude Sonnet has a lot of yellows and reds in their uptime charts. Scaling up for all these guys has proven to be difficult.
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Utoko@reddit

Certainly, NVIDIA still has a lot of GPU's to sell.
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tjlusco@reddit

I'm not sure why the news is seemingly bad for Nvidia. DeepSeek seems to have made breakthroughs on training side, but fundamentally you still need GPUs to run the model. According to the paper, a single instance requires a cluster of 34 nodes, each with 8 x A800. That's 336 A800 GPUs at $20K USD each, or $7.8M in GPU hardware alone. How many instances do you need to operate at OpenAI / Anthropic scale?
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Pitiful-Diet-4819@reddit

Nvidia is in a challenging position because, despite the US GPU sanctions on China, Chinese companies have managed to train this model using relatively moderate hardware compared to ChatGPT. This achievement could limit the demand for Nvidia GPUs for such massive tasks. Additionally, since the model is free to use—both through the API and locally—it could potentially reduce the number of individual and company subscriptions to ChatGPT. This, in turn, might lead to lower revenue for OpenAI, which could negatively affect Nvidia’s stock market value if investors perceive reduced demand for their hardware. Cost : [https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/](https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/) Sanctions : [https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1110526/china-deepseek-top-ai-despite-sanctions/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1110526/china-deepseek-top-ai-despite-sanctions/)
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Position_Emergency@reddit

They are probably getting DDoSed by a hedge fund. Cut them some slack.
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Recoil42@reddit

This is more than "prime time", they're the number one news story in the world.
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best_of_badgers@reddit

Number one news story in outlets where financial news is top priority. So, American and Hong Kong ones, mainly.
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Utoko@reddit

The NVIDIA crash was big enough together with the "china is coming story", was news in Germany too. Even in China itself it make news. Deepseek is not one of the big players even in China, so even there the news leads to more traffic.
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Recoil42@reddit

American news is a big deal.
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best_of_badgers@reddit

Well sure. Many of the tech people who use these tools in the first place are based in the US. But it isn't [even on the front page of Le Monde](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/) or [Der Spiegel](https://www.spiegel.de/international/), though the German paper has at least two AI-adjacent articles (about deep fakes and Elon Musk).
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Recoil42@reddit

It's literally the #1 story on the BBC right now. https://preview.redd.it/iea8b74bukfe1.png?width=2596&format=png&auto=webp&s=6220ffd6994db117e10263687a74113ebeb90e42
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Orolol@reddit

Not really, even in Europe it's everywhere on the news. Because last week we got lot of focus on the broligarchy of Musk, Bezos, Zuck, and their investment plan in AI.
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exxy-@reddit

aaaand you're a fresh bot taken out of storage to post this comment--lol.
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Diligent-Pepper5166@reddit

Its still down for me, APIs are not working
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Nightpain_uWu@reddit

Same
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shockwaverc13@reddit

they should make a chinese equivalent of cloudflare... SMOGflare!
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Success-Dependent@reddit

I've not been able to access the API all day (ET). I had about 2 successful, but very slow, requests out of probably 100 .
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the_masterbuilder@reddit

This is the current status of their API service. https://status.deepseek.com/
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davikrehalt@reddit

interesting that their chinese message is different than english. In chinese they say they are being DDOS'd intentionally
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russianguy@reddit

This is what makes the market response so irrational to me - if open models are going to be that good, doesn't it make sense to build huge amounts of inference infrastructure?
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HeinrichTheWolf_17@reddit

It’s working for me right now.
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RazzmatazzReal4129@reddit (OP)

Try to get to [https://platform.deepseek.com/](https://platform.deepseek.com/)
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