DeepSeek chat and API services suffer partial outage on Nov. 7

Nov 7, 2026 07:43 (2d ago)

DeepSeek again experienced disruptions affecting its chat and API services.
15:11 marked the start of the partial outage listed on DeepSeek’s status page.
DeepSeek said repairs were implemented and monitoring of the fix was underway.

DeepSeek’s chat function was temporarily unavailable again on Nov. 7, with users seeing a message saying the server was busy and asking them to try again later. The company’s status page recorded a partial outage affecting the Chat Service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API from 15:11. DeepSeek said it was investigating the cause and later reported that a fix had been implemented, with monitoring underway to assess its effectiveness. An API (application programming interface) allows software systems to communicate with a service.