DeepSeek web and API services restored after outage, some still degraded
DeepSeek's official status page showed a partial web and API outage beginning at 16:58 on November 3, 2026, affecting the chat service, the DeepSeek V4 Pro API and the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API, with the chat interface returning "server busy, please retry." The company later said the interruption had been fixed and that it was monitoring the results, while the V4 Pro, V4.1 Flash APIs and chat service continued to show degraded performance. cnBeta, citing DeepSeek's status records, noted at least 10 large-scale outages so far this year plus more frequent performance-degradation reports.
The incident shows DeepSeek's public chat and API endpoints — including the V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash models — experiencing repeated outages and degraded performance, which matters for developers and users depending on DeepSeek for continuous availability.