Is DeepSeek Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of deepseek.com plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-04-28

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Known issues we've tracked

Regional availability restrictions: EU, Canada, South Korea, Australia, and India issued formal restrictions or bans on deployment of DeepSeek-V3 and the enterprise API in Q1 2026 over data-residency concerns (traffic routing through mainland China). Germany's BSI confirmed classified metadata leak from a parliamentary pilot. If you're deploying DeepSeek in any of these jurisdictions, check local compliance guidance before shipping; self-hosted open-weights deployment is often the workaround but changes the operational picture
2026-Q1•National CSIRT/BSI statements (aggregated), Alibaba policy analysis
DeepSeek V4 SHIPPED 2026-04-24. Two-model family released simultaneously: V4-Pro (1.6T total / 49B active MoE) and V4-Flash (284B / 13B active MoE). Both default to 1M context natively, use DeepSeek's new Hybrid Attention Architecture, and are open-sourced on HuggingFace under MIT license. V4-Pro trails only Gemini 3.1 Pro on world-knowledge benchmarks per early third-party runs. API pricing: Flash $0.14/$0.28, Pro $1.74/$3.48 per 1M tokens -- still 3-10x cheaper than Western frontier models. Tier-1 coverage: Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, Simon Willison blog. This closes out the 'V4 imminent' watchlist item that was open since 2026-04-03 Reuters pre-report
2026-04-24•DeepSeek API docs, Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch, Simon Willison
PROMO: DeepSeek V4-Pro is 75% off through 2026-05-31 15:59 UTC per the official pricing page (api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing). Effective rates during promo: $0.435 input / $0.87 output per 1M tokens (vs $1.74 / $3.48 list); cache-hit input drops to $0.003625/M. After 2026-05-31 reverts to standard pricing. Bloomberg framed the move as a 'Chinese price war' against frontier-model rates from OpenAI / Anthropic / Google. Worth locking in agentic-coding workloads now if you're cost-sensitive
2026-04-27•DeepSeek pricing docs (api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing), Bloomberg
Third-party verification (T+3 days post-launch): Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index pegs V4-Pro at 52 (#2 open-weight, behind Kimi K2.6) and V4-Flash at 47. Vals AI: V4 is #1 open-weight on Vibe Code Bench 'and it's not close', plus #1 open-weight on SWE-bench. SWE-bench Verified 80.6% (effectively tied with Claude Opus 4.6's 80.8%). Codeforces 3206 surpasses GPT-5.4 (3168) -- highest competitive-programming score at release. GDPval-AA agentic 1554 leads all open-weight models. BUT LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo around 1220 places V4-Pro alongside GPT-4o and Claude 4 Sonnet, not at the Opus-class frontier (1280+). Simon Willison's pelican-SVG community test produced visibly weak output from V4-Pro (one wing, oversized body) and concluded V4-Pro is 3-6 months behind US frontier labs at a fraction of the cost. Practical verdict: best-in-class open-weight for code/agents/math, mid-pack for general chat quality, weakest for creative/visual generation. Hallucination rate 94%/96% (Pro/Flash) per AA-Omniscience -- caveat for fact-sensitive workloads
2026-04-27•Artificial Analysis, Vals AI, Simon Willison, LMSYS Chatbot Arena, Codeforces
Refuses to engage with questions about Tiananmen Square, Taiwan sovereignty, and other politically sensitive topics per Chinese regulations
2026-01•Reddit r/LocalLLaMA
API latency spikes during peak hours, sometimes timing out entirely on longer reasoning chains
2026-02•GitHub Issues

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if DeepSeek is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

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Qwen (Alibaba)

8.8

Alibaba's open-weights + API family -- Qwen3.6-27B dense (Apr 22 2026 Apache 2.0, beats the 397B MoE flagship on coding from a single consumer GPU), Qwen 3.6-Max-Preview (Apr 20 2026 closed-weights #1 on SWE-bench Pro/Terminal-Bench 2.0/SciCode), Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Apr 16 open-weights MoE), plus Qwen 3.6-Plus API flagship

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MiniMax M2.7

8.4

MiniMax's open-weights self-evolving agent flagship -- M2.7 (released 2026-03-18) scores 56.22% SWE-Pro and 57.0% Terminal Bench 2 from a 229B/10B-active MoE

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Gemma 4 (Google)

8.3

Google DeepMind's open-weights model family -- multimodal, 256K context, runs on edge devices

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IBM Granite 4.0

8.2

IBM's enterprise-focused open-weight family -- Granite 4.0 hybrid Mamba-2 + transformer architecture (70-80% memory reduction vs pure transformer), 3B to 32B sizes, Apache 2.0. First open model family to secure ISO 42001 certification. Nano 350M runs on CPU with 8-16GB RAM. 3B Vision variant landed 2026-04-01

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Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot)

8.1

Moonshot's 1T-parameter MoE open-weights flagship -- Kimi K2.6 (GA 2026-04-20) is #1 open-weights on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0 (score 54, ranked #4 overall). Native video input, 256K context, Modified MIT license

About DeepSeek

Tier A (8.0/10). DeepSeek V4 shipped 2026-04-24: V4-Pro (1.6T/49B active MoE) + V4-Flash (284B/13B active), 1M native context, Hybrid Attention Architecture, open-source on HF. Trails only Gemini 3.1 Pro on world knowledge

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