❯ DeepSeek restores normal service after yesterday’s web and API disruption

Three services were affectedThe Paper reported on November 3 that DeepSeek experienced partial web and API disruption at around 4:58 p.m. Beijing time. Affected components included V4.1 Flash API, V4 Pro API and chat services. The company subsequently implemented a fix and monitored results while the components still showed degraded performance.

The current status is normalAs of the morning of November 4, DeepSeek’s official status page shows all systems operating normally. Monitoring and degradation were earlier stages of the incident response. The disruption involved both the consumer chat interface and APIs used by developers to integrate models into applications.

Reliability is part of deliveryChat users can retry requests, while applications making continuous calls also depend on timely responses. Separate status reporting for the website, APIs and model components helps users identify affected dependencies and decide whether their workloads require waiting, retrying or another service.

▮ SIGNALAs models enter continuously running applications, availability and response reliability shape the experience alongside reasoning capability.