{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "deepseek-api", "name": "DeepSeek API", "vendor": "DeepSeek", "vendorUrl": "https://www.deepseek.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Hangzhou lab's API for the V4 model family, in both OpenAI and Anthropic request formats, with off-peak pricing.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-api", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-api.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-api.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-api.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.deepseek.com", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer key against a prepaid balance. An Anthropic-format base URL is at `/anthropic`.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Prepaid balance, and any granted balance is spent first. Prices shown are peak (01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC, Monday to Friday, except Chinese public holidays). Off-peak is half price. Disk cache on by default, with cache hits at $0.044 per 1M input tokens on V4 Pro and $0.006 on V4.1 Flash at peak (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing).", "priceSummary": "from $0.30 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-26" }, "docsUrl": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/rate_limit", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "prepaid" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.8, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 842, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 20, "reliability": 65, "schema": 49, "security": 30, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "On 2026-09-10 DeepSeek retired V4 Flash and routed `deepseek-v4-flash` and `deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp` to V4.1 Flash the same day, so callers pinned to those names got a different model without notice (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates)" ], "verdict": "Accepts both OpenAI and Anthropic request formats. 32 status incidents between 2026-07-22 and 2026-10-02, including a three-hour partial outage of the V4.1 Flash API on 2026-09-14.", "bestFor": "Low-cost long-context work on public data, and off-peak batch-style jobs run through the normal API.", "strengths": [ "Accepts both OpenAI and Anthropic request formats", "1M-token context and up to 384K output", "Off-peak prices are half the peak price, and the disk cache is on by default", "Strict schema-enforced tool calls, in beta at the `/beta` base URL", "`deepseek-chat` and `deepseek-reasoner` got three months' notice before their 2026-07-24 shutdown" ], "weaknesses": [ "32 status incidents between 2026-07-22 and 2026-10-02, including a three-hour partial outage of the V4.1 Flash API on 2026-09-14", "Personal data trains models unless you email to opt out, and data is stored in the PRC with no retention period stated", "V4 Flash names were rerouted to V4.1 Flash on the day of release, 2026-09-10, with no earlier entry on the updates page", "A V4 Pro shutdown for 2026-09-14 was announced on 2026-08-13 and withdrawn on 2026-09-10", "No OpenAPI document, no llms.txt, no security.txt, no batch API, no official SDKs and no free tier" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send only data you'd be happy to publish", "Schedule bulk work off-peak for half price. Peak runs 01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC on weekdays, except Chinese public holidays", "Set `max_tokens` yourself. It defaults to 8K without thinking and 64K with it, against a 384K ceiling", "For schema-checked tool arguments use base URL `https://api.deepseek.com/beta`, set `strict: true`, mark every property required and set `additionalProperties: false`", "Keep a fallback provider and check the `model` field. 429 carries no Retry-After, and `deepseek-v4-flash` now answers as V4.1 Flash" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 20, "reliability": 65, "schema": 49, "security": 30, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DEEPSEEK_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"deepseek-v4-pro\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepseek-api" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.", "domain": "deepseek.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-08-13", "domainNote": "deepseek.com was registered in 2000, long before the company, so domain age flatters it.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html", "privacy": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html", "statusPage": "https://status.deepseek.com", "changelog": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-26", "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-api.json", "live": { "slug": "deepseek-api", "probe": { "target": "https://api.deepseek.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:49.59673151Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 286, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 286, "p95ms24h": 379, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 3407, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-27", "probes": 132, "ok": 132 }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "probes": 285, "ok": 285 }, { "date": "2026-09-29", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 286, "ok": 286 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.deepseek.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T00:50:25.019645073Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:14.856570571Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "deepseek.com", "registered": "2000-08-13", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/deepseek.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:10.74402119Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:32:32.748726285Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "577ca8c2ab97" }, { "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:32:29.958908628Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f05e491ec01b" }, { "url": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:33:40.794897106Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a8cd8da7a4f7" }, { "url": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:33:38.78422507Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "416212a1efee" } ], "models": { "deepseek-flash": { "openrouterId": "deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": true, "input": [ "image", "text" ], "promptCaching": true, "contextTokens": 1048576, "maxOutput": 943718, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" }, "deepseek-v4-pro": { "openrouterId": "deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": true, "input": [ "text" ], "promptCaching": true, "contextTokens": 1048576, "maxOutput": 384000, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T22:59:28.49657734Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:37:49.59673151Z" } }, "answer": "DeepSeek API and SiliconFlow score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 46.8 (D) and 46.7 (D). SiliconFlow leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "siliconflow", "name": "SiliconFlow", "vendor": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.siliconflow.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "SiliconFlow is a hosted inference API for open-weight models, covering chat, vision, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech. It answers OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style calls at api.siliconflow.com with a Bearer key.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/siliconflow.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve Bearer key from the console at https://cloud.siliconflow.com/account/ak after a browser sign-up with a Google or GitHub account. The Anthropic-style `/messages` route also takes the key in `x-api-key`. No scopes, expiry or per-key limits are documented, and rate limits apply to the account, not the key. The error page says some models answer 403 until real-name authentication is done.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pay per token, image, video or byte of speech text, with $1 in free credits for a new account. Whether a card is needed to claim the credit was not established. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash costs $0.15 in, $0.003 cached and $0.60 out per 1M tokens. The FAQ says monthly spending limits can be set in the dashboard (https://www.siliconflow.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "from $0.15 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/userguide/quickstart", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/cn/userguide/rate-limits/rate-limit-and-upgradation", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/cn/api-reference/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "embed.text", "rerank", "image.generate", "video.generate", "speech.tts", "speech.stt" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "usage-based", "free-credit", "openapi", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "singapore" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 848, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 950, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 47, "payments": 35, "reliability": 33, "schema": 65, "security": 39, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-token prices for every listed model are public, and one key reaches chat, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech through OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style routes. No status page, SLA, security page or official SDK was found, release notes stop at 11 June 2026, and several model removals are dated the same day as their notice.", "bestFor": "Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, video and speech, behind one OpenAI-style key at low per-token prices, and can live without a status page or SLA.", "strengths": [ "Per-token, per-image and per-video prices are public for every listed model, such as DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at $0.15 in and $0.60 out per 1M tokens", "One Bearer key reaches 22 operations in a public OpenAPI 3.0 file, with OpenAI-style `/chat/completions` and Anthropic-style `/messages`", "`llms.txt` and a Markdown copy of every docs page, in English and Chinese", "Rate limits are published by spend tier, from 1,000 requests and 40,000 tokens a minute at L0 to 10,000 and 2,000,000 at L5", "The terms say SiliconFlow will not access Interaction Data, has no obligation to store it, and uses it only to supply the service" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the terms disclaim any uptime or availability commitment", "Release notes stop at 11 June 2026. Six notices from December 2025 to June 2026 give a removal date equal to the notice date", "The Terms of Use of 9 September 2026 forbid use for any commercial purposes, scraping tools and benchmarking. This matters before any probe is run", "The OpenAPI model list and the function calling guide name models already removed, and omit every model added since July 2026", "No security.txt, disclosure policy, certification, DPA or sub-processor list was found, and no official SDK is published" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set the OpenAI client's base URL to `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1`, or the Anthropic client's to `https://api.siliconflow.com/`, and send the key as a Bearer token", "Take model ids from the model pages or `GET /v1/models`, not from the OpenAPI enum or the function calling guide, which list removed models", "Check the `model` field of each response. On 11 June 2026 traffic for GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 was routed to successor models", "Use `response_format` of `json_object` only where the model page says JSON Mode is supported, and keep `max_tokens` about 10,000 below the context length", "Set the Claude Code environment variables by hand. The automated route pipes a script from an Amazon S3 bucket into bash" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 47, "payments": 35, "reliability": 33, "schema": 65, "security": 39, "transparency": 34 }, "provenanceScore": 68 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install --upgrade openai", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.siliconflow.com/v1/chat/completions \\\n --header 'authorization: Bearer $SILICONFLOW_API_KEY' \\\n --header 'content-type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"model\":\"deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}],\"max_tokens\":128}'", "claudeCode": "export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=\"https://api.siliconflow.com/\"\nexport ANTHROPIC_MODEL=\"your-preferred-model\"\nexport ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=\"sk-your-api-key-here\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/siliconflow" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Z-Image-Turbo, one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.005 }, { "item": "FLUX.1-dev, one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.014 }, { "item": "FLUX 1.1 [pro], one image", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.04 }, { "item": "Wan2.2-T2V-A14B, one video", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.29, "note": "Priced per video generated" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "domain": "siliconflow.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-02-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/release-notes/overview", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use, updated 9 September 2026, name SILICONFLOW LABS PTE. LTD., apply Singapore law and set SIAC arbitration in Singapore. They govern the platform in its web, API and mobile versions, and no separate API agreement was found.", "The Privacy Policy, updated 9 September 2026, names the same entity and cites Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act 2012. It keeps square brackets around several values, such as [Stripe] and [Google and GitHub].", "No status page is linked from the site, the docs index or the pages read.", "https://www.siliconflow.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404.", "RDAP for siliconflow.com gives a registration date of 2019-02-14.", "The API answers at api.siliconflow.com, the docs at docs.siliconflow.com and the console at cloud.siliconflow.com. The terms point users in mainland China to siliconflow.cn.", "No SLA, DPA or sub-processor list was found." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.json", "live": { "slug": "siliconflow", "probe": { "target": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-10T01:38:07.305577242Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 283, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 271, "p95ms24h": 377, "samples24h": 102, "samples30d": 102, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 17, "ok": 17 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/release-notes/overview", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:22.595479943Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "020d6d5c5cb2" }, { "url": "https://www.siliconflow.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:54:15.050158864Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "597402093b57" }, { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:18.377821725Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d7eb9964dc83" }, { "url": "https://docs.siliconflow.com/en/legals/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T18:38:20.660352373Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "299aa0be9f28" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T01:38:07.305577242Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "DeepSeek", "b": "SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.deepseek.com", "b": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-10", "b": "2026-09-14", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "DeepSeek API and SiliconFlow score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 46.8 (D) and 46.7 (D). SiliconFlow leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek API or SiliconFlow?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do DeepSeek API and SiliconFlow need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. DeepSeek API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepseek.com and SiliconFlow at https://api.siliconflow.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call DeepSeek API and SiliconFlow without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 65 against 33", "Agent ergonomics, 70 against 60", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 51" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Low-cost long-context work on public data, and off-peak batch-style jobs run through the normal API.", "slug": "deepseek-api", "watchFor": "32 status incidents between 2026-07-22 and 2026-10-02, including a three-hour partial outage of the V4.1 Flash API on 2026-09-14" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 65 against 49", "Security \u0026 auth, 39 against 30", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek API loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, video and speech, behind one OpenAI-style key at low 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70, "edge": "deepseek-api", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "siliconflow": 60, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "deepseek-api": 30, "edge": "siliconflow", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "siliconflow": 39, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "deepseek-api": 20, "edge": "siliconflow", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "siliconflow": 35, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "deepseek-api": 46, "edge": "siliconflow", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "siliconflow": 47, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 14, "deepseek-api": 65, "edge": "deepseek-api", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "siliconflow": 51, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "DeepSeek API and SiliconFlow score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 46.8 (D) and 46.7 (D). 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No status page, SLA, security page or official SDK was found, release notes stop at 11 June 2026, and several model removals are dated the same day as their notice." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-siliconflow", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-siliconflow.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-siliconflow.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-siliconflow.min.md" }, "markdown": "DeepSeek API and SiliconFlow score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 46.8 (D) and 46.7 (D). SiliconFlow leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- DeepSeek API: grade D, 46.8/100, rank #842 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-api.json\n- SiliconFlow: grade D, 46.7/100, rank #848 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/siliconflow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/siliconflow.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 136 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DeepSeek API (D)\n\nGood for: Low-cost long-context work on public data, and off-peak batch-style jobs run through the normal API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 33\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 51\n\nWatch for: 32 status incidents between 2026-07-22 and 2026-10-02, including a three-hour partial outage of the V4.1 Flash API on 2026-09-14\n\n### SiliconFlow (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that want recent open-weight chat models, plus image, video and speech, behind one OpenAI-style key at low per-token prices, and can live without a status page or SLA.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 65 against 49\n- Security \u0026 auth, 39 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek API loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or SLA was found, and the terms disclaim any uptime or availability commitment\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DeepSeek API | SiliconFlow | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 33 | DeepSeek API +32 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 65 | SiliconFlow +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 60 | DeepSeek API +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 39 | SiliconFlow +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | SiliconFlow +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 47 | SiliconFlow +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 51 | DeepSeek API +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.8 · D** | **46.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeepSeek API | SiliconFlow |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | DeepSeek | SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.deepseek.com` | `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the SiliconFlow Terms of Use |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-14 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DeepSeek API.** Accepts both OpenAI and Anthropic request formats. 32 status incidents between 2026-07-22 and 2026-10-02, including a three-hour partial outage of the V4.1 Flash API on 2026-09-14.\n\n**SiliconFlow.** Per-token prices for every listed model are public, and one key reaches chat, embeddings, reranking, image, video and speech through OpenAI-style and Anthropic-style routes. No status page, SLA, security page or official SDK was found, release notes stop at 11 June 2026, and several model removals are dated the same day as their notice.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DeepSeek API\n\n1. Send only data you'd be happy to publish\n2. Schedule bulk work off-peak for half price. Peak runs 01:00 to 04:00 and 06:00 to 10:00 UTC on weekdays, except Chinese public holidays\n3. Set `max_tokens` yourself. It defaults to 8K without thinking and 64K with it, against a 384K ceiling\n4. For schema-checked tool arguments use base URL `https://api.deepseek.com/beta`, set `strict: true`, mark every property required and set `additionalProperties: false`\n5. Keep a fallback provider and check the `model` field. 429 carries no Retry-After, and `deepseek-v4-flash` now answers as V4.1 Flash\n\n### SiliconFlow\n\n1. Set the OpenAI client's base URL to `https://api.siliconflow.com/v1`, or the Anthropic client's to `https://api.siliconflow.com/`, and send the key as a Bearer token\n2. Take model ids from the model pages or `GET /v1/models`, not from the OpenAPI enum or the function calling guide, which list removed models\n3. Check the `model` field of each response. On 11 June 2026 traffic for GLM-5 and Kimi-K2.5 was routed to successor models\n4. Use `response_format` of `json_object` only where the model page says JSON Mode is supported, and keep `max_tokens` about 10,000 below the context length\n5. Set the Claude Code environment variables by hand. The automated route pipes a script from an Amazon S3 bucket into bash\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek API or SiliconFlow?\n\nDeepSeek API and SiliconFlow score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 46.8 (D) and 46.7 (D). SiliconFlow leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do DeepSeek API and SiliconFlow need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call DeepSeek API and SiliconFlow without installing anything?\n\nYes. DeepSeek API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepseek.com and SiliconFlow at https://api.siliconflow.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-siliconflow.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-siliconflow.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepseek-api\", \"b\": \"siliconflow\"}`. 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