Last verified: October 8, 2026 Yes, you can use DeepSeek through AWS or Azure, but the details matter. AWS and Azure do not always expose the same DeepSeek model names, pricing model, API surface, deployment type, region, or security controls…
Last reviewed: October 9, 2026 DeepSeek Vision is best understood as DeepSeek’s current image-input capability in the API, served through deepseek-flash, also known as DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. It lets you send images with text prompts so the model can describe pictures, read…
Last verified: October 8, 2026 If DeepSeek is not working, do not assume the whole service is down. DeepSeek can fail for several different reasons: an official outage, temporary overload, a login or account problem, a browser issue, a mobile…
Last verified: October 8, 2026 DeepSeek is not generally banned for private users in the United States. As of this review, the official DeepSeek app remains listed in the U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play, and DeepSeek’s official website…
Last verified: October 7, 2026 DeepSeek OCR usually refers to DeepSeek’s open-weight OCR and document-understanding models, especially DeepSeek-OCR and the newer DeepSeek-OCR-2. It can also refer more loosely to using DeepSeek’s hosted Vision API with deepseek-flash to read text from…
Last reviewed: October 9, 2026 You can use DeepSeek with Claude Code by pointing the terminal agent at and putting your DeepSeek API key in ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN. DeepSeek publishes this integration recipe. Keep that same credential variable in your diagnostic…
Last verified: October 7, 2026 Yes, you can run DeepSeek locally on Windows and Mac with Ollama. For most people, the practical starting point is the Ollama deepseek-r1 model family, not DeepSeek’s hosted API model names. The simplest command is:…
Last verified: October 7, 2026 DeepSeek Harness is DeepSeek’s open-source agent harness for running AI agent workflows over files, code, tools, sessions, workspaces, and plugins. It is not a DeepSeek model, not the same thing as the DeepSeek API, and…
Last verified: October 7, 2026 DeepSeek V4 Pro is the Pro route of DeepSeek’s V4 model family. In the current DeepSeek API model table, the API model name is deepseek-v4-pro, and the listed model version is DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813. It supports a…
Last verified: October 10, 2026 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is DeepSeek’s current Flash model route for the API. For new API code, the model name you should normally use is deepseek-flash, not deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp. DeepSeek’s official release note says V4.1…