DeepSeek experienced a partial outage affecting its web chat and API services on October 15, with users reporting messages saying the server was temporarily unavailable. The company’s status page recorded the incident from 8:11 a.m. Beijing time.
DeepSeek subsequently said it had identified the cause and was implementing a fix. At 12:49 p.m., the company moved the incident to monitoring status, saying a fix had been implemented and it was monitoring the results. The incident affected chat services and APIs for DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash. [DeepSeek]