{ "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 the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses 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": "2026-10-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 45.8, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1025, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 30, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 20, "reliability": 60, "schema": 49, "security": 30, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "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 the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic request formats at per-token prices that halve off-peak. The status feed lists 36 incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, including partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and almost five hours on 15 October.", "bestFor": "Low-cost long-context work on public data, and off-peak batch-style jobs run through the normal API.", "strengths": [ "Accepts the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses 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", "Weights of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, the model behind `deepseek-flash`, are on Hugging Face under the MIT licence", "`deepseek-chat` and `deepseek-reasoner` got three months' notice before their 24 July 2026 shutdown" ], "weaknesses": [ "36 status incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, with partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and 4 hours 52 minutes on 15 October", "Personal data trains models unless you email to opt out, and data is stored in the PRC with no retention period stated", "Model names move without a pinnable version. V4 Flash names were rerouted on 10 September 2026, and `deepseek-flash` became the 1017 model on 17 October", "A V4 Pro shutdown for 14 September 2026 was announced on 13 August and withdrawn on 10 September", "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 re-run evals after model changes. 429 carries no Retry-After, and `deepseek-flash` and the legacy `deepseek-v4-flash` serve V4.1-Flash-1017 since 17 October 2026" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 45.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 46, "payments": 20, "reliability": 60, "schema": 49, "security": 30, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 84, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-17", "maintenance": "2026-10-17", "payments": "2026-10-17", "reliability": "2026-10-17", "schema": "2026-10-17", "security": "2026-10-17", "transparency": "2026-10-17" }, "last": "2026-10-17", "lastMoved": "2026-10-17", "oldest": "2026-10-17", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "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" }, "sameCompany": [ "deepseek-search-api", "deepseek-v3-2", "deepseek-v4-flash-0731" ], "sameModel": [ "deepseek-v4-1-flash" ], "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": "2026-10-28T05:40:46.167734688Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 296, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 286, "p95ms24h": 366, "samples24h": 251, "samples30d": 7965, "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": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 60, "ok": 60 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.deepseek.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:26:21.028227404Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T15:31:54.004589507Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "deepseek.com", "registered": "2000-08-13", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/deepseek.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:50:05.058593646Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news261017", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:26:36.230545442Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0b7759a1a43e" }, { "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:26:40.553660448Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-17T22:44:52.344061247Z", "fingerprint": "9f18435fe97b" }, { "url": "https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:26:39.857734369Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-28T04:09:05.034302127Z", "fingerprint": "3cfed9c635c9" }, { "url": "https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:27:54.482719469Z", "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": "2026-10-28T04:27:52.458905799Z", "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": 131072, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T23:49:19.214234221Z" }, "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": "2026-10-27T23:49:19.214234221Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T05:40:46.167734688Z" } }, "answer": "DeepSeek API scores 45.8 (E) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "simplismart", "name": "Simplismart", "vendor": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://simplismart.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "inference", "summary": "Simplismart is an inference platform for open models. It runs 150+ models on shared pay-per-token endpoints with an OpenAI-compatible API, and handles dedicated GPU deployments, bring-your-own-cloud clusters and fine-tuning jobs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json", "license": "Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.simplismart.live", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "simplismart-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API keys made under Settings, API Keys. Each key has a unique name and an expiry chosen at creation; non-expiring keys need a request to support. Keys return 401 after midnight UTC on the expiry date and can be deleted at once. The Python SDK and CLI use a separate Playground token. Organisation roles are Admin, Member and Billing User, and workspaces scope models and deployments.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Shared endpoints are priced per 1M tokens, per image or per audio minute, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 and DeepSeek-V3 at $0.90 per 1M tokens. Dedicated GPUs run from $1.20 (T4) to $5.20 (H200) per GPU-hour. Prepaid credits at $1 each; new organisations may receive $5 of free credits.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs (llms.txt index, billing, API keys and API reference pages) or on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026. Credits are bought by card, UPI or netbanking, or billed postpaid.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-28" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.simplismart.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/openapi-specs/playground/llama-8b.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights", "speech.stt", "image.generate", "compute.endpoints", "finetune.sft", "finetune.lora", "finetune.preference", "finetune.rl" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "model", "open-weights", "usage-based", "openai-compatible", "openapi", "llms-txt", "python", "dedicated-endpoints", "byoc", "fine-tuning" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 29.7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1146, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1221, "categoryRank": 32, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 17, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 25, "reliability": 15, "schema": 51, "security": 35, "transparency": 31 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-28" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.", "bestFor": "Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.", "strengths": [ "Public per-unit prices without a login, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 per 1M tokens and Whisper v3 Turbo at $0.0018 per audio minute", "API keys are named, carry an expiry date chosen at creation, return 401 after expiry and can be deleted at once", "Markdown docs and an llms.txt index, with OpenAPI 3.1 files for seven LLMs, Whisper and Flux", "Shared endpoints, dedicated GPU deployments and bring-your-own-cloud clusters sit on one account, with workspaces and organisation roles" ], "weaknesses": [ "No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages", "No status page, incident history or SLA document found; the 99.99% uptime figure is a homepage claim", "Tool calling, structured output, prompt caching and context lengths are not documented for the shared endpoints", "The terms (13 January 2023) and privacy policy cover the website and say nothing about prompt retention or training on API data", "The pricing page lists older models (Llama 3.1, DeepSeek-R1) and omits Gemma 4 31B, the model the quickstart uses" ], "agentNotes": [ "Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.", "Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.", "Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.", "Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.", "Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 29.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 17, "maintenance": 42, "payments": 25, "reliability": 15, "schema": 51, "security": 35, "transparency": 14 }, "provenanceScore": 48, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-28", "maintenance": "2026-10-28", "payments": "2026-10-28", "reliability": "2026-10-28", "schema": "2026-10-28", "security": "2026-10-28", "transparency": "2026-10-28" }, "last": "2026-10-28", "oldest": "2026-10-28", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl 'https://api.simplismart.live/chat/completions' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SIMPLISMART_API_KEY\" -d '{\"model\": \"meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Say hello.\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/simplismart" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Llama 3.1 8B (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.13, "note": "Single per-1M-token rate on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026; input and output are not priced separately" }, { "item": "Llama 3.3 70B (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.74, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "DeepSeek-V3 (shared)", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.9, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "Whisper v3 Turbo (shared)", "unit": "audio-minute", "usd": 0.0018, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "Flux Dev (shared, 1024x1024)", "unit": "image", "usd": 0.03, "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026" }, { "item": "NVIDIA H100, dedicated", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 5, "note": "Pricing page table order, checked 28 October 2026; a Simplismart article gives $4.00 per hour" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "domain": "simplismart.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://simplismart.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://simplismart.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-28", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 13 January 2023) and privacy policy (effective 13 January 2023) name Verute Technologies Private Limited, Indian law and an address on Residency Road, Bengaluru. Both define the Service as the simplismart.ai website.", "The inference API answers on api.simplismart.live, a separate domain named in the docs. Domain registration was not checked.", "No status page found. The docs and site link none, and status.simplismart.ai could not be reached from our network.", "No changelog found in the docs sitemap or llms.txt. Model additions appear as blog posts.", "simplismart.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered 404." ], "score": 48 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.json", "live": { "slug": "simplismart", "probe": { "target": "https://api.simplismart.live", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T05:41:06.267913122Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 53, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 55, "p95ms24h": 125, "samples24h": 18, "samples30d": 18, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 18, "ok": 18 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://simplismart.ai/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:43:26.224508402Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bd2d6d5ffe37" }, { "url": "https://simplismart.ai/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T04:43:28.253583075Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "94fe8807daf7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T05:41:06.267913122Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "DeepSeek", "b": "Verute Technologies Private Limited", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.deepseek.com", "b": "https://api.simplismart.live", "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 hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences.", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-17", "b": "2026-10-19", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "DeepSeek API scores 45.8 (E) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek API or Simplismart?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do DeepSeek API and Simplismart need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. DeepSeek API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepseek.com and Simplismart at https://api.simplismart.live.", "question": "Can an agent call DeepSeek API and Simplismart without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 60 against 15", "Agent ergonomics, 70 against 17", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 31" ], "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": "36 status incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, with partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and 4 hours 52 minutes on 15 October" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 35 against 30", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek API loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.", "slug": "simplismart", "watchFor": "No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages" } ], "job": { "capability": "inference.llm", "name": "LLM inference" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-deepseek-api.json", "title": "Claude API vs DeepSeek API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-deepseek-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Claude API vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-deepseek-api.json", "title": "Antseed vs DeepSeek API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-deepseek-api" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fireworks-inference-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Fireworks AI Inference vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fireworks-inference-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Gemini Developer API vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-api-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "GroqCloud vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/groq-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Jais 3 vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jais-3-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Meta Model API vs Simplismart", "url": 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Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-api-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "OpenRouter vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openrouter-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Prism Inference vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Beam 1.0 vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-beam-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "RouterPlus vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/routerplus-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sambanova-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "SambaCloud vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sambanova-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/siliconflow-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "SiliconFlow vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/siliconflow-vs-simplismart" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Simplismart vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "Simplismart vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Simplismart vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/simplismart-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-simplismart.json", "title": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs Simplismart", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-super-vl-vs-simplismart" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 45, "deepseek-api": 60, "edge": "deepseek-api", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "simplismart": 15, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "deepseek-api": 49, "edge": "simplismart", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "simplismart": 51, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 53, "deepseek-api": 70, "edge": "deepseek-api", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "simplismart": 17, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "deepseek-api": 30, "edge": "simplismart", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "simplismart": 35, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "deepseek-api": 20, "edge": "simplismart", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "simplismart": 25, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "deepseek-api": 46, "edge": "deepseek-api", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "simplismart": 42, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 34, "deepseek-api": 65, "edge": "deepseek-api", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "simplismart": 31, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "DeepSeek API scores 45.8 (E) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "deepseek-api": "Accepts the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic request formats at per-token prices that halve off-peak. The status feed lists 36 incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, including partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and almost five hours on 15 October.", "simplismart": "Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-simplismart", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-simplismart.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-simplismart.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-simplismart.min.md" }, "markdown": "DeepSeek API scores 45.8 (E) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- DeepSeek API: grade E, 45.8/100, rank #1025 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-api.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-api.json\n- Simplismart: grade F, 29.7/100, rank #1146 of 1221. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 497 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DeepSeek API (E)\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, 60 against 15\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 17\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 31\n\nWatch for: 36 status incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, with partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and 4 hours 52 minutes on 15 October\n\n### Simplismart (F)\n\nGood for: Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 35 against 30\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek API loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DeepSeek API | Simplismart | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 15 | DeepSeek API +45 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 51 | Simplismart +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 17 | DeepSeek API +53 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Simplismart +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Simplismart +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 42 | DeepSeek API +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 31 | DeepSeek API +34 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.8 · E** | **29.7 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DeepSeek API | Simplismart |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | DeepSeek | Verute Technologies Private Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.deepseek.com` | `https://api.simplismart.live` |\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 hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-19 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DeepSeek API.** Accepts the OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses and Anthropic request formats at per-token prices that halve off-peak. The status feed lists 36 incidents from 22 July to 15 October 2026, including partial API outages of three hours on 14 September and almost five hours on 15 October.\n\n**Simplismart.** Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.\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 re-run evals after model changes. 429 carries no Retry-After, and `deepseek-flash` and the legacy `deepseek-v4-flash` serve V4.1-Flash-1017 since 17 October 2026\n\n### Simplismart\n\n1. Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.\n2. Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.\n3. Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.\n4. Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.\n5. Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DeepSeek API or Simplismart?\n\nDeepSeek API scores 45.8 (E) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do DeepSeek API and Simplismart need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call DeepSeek API and Simplismart without installing anything?\n\nYes. DeepSeek API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.deepseek.com and Simplismart at https://api.simplismart.live.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-simplismart.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-api-vs-simplismart.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepseek-api\", \"b\": \"simplismart\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare deepseek-api simplismart`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-api.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json\n\n## Other comparisons with DeepSeek API or Simplismart\n\n- [Claude API vs DeepSeek API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-deepseek-api.md)\n- [Claude API vs Simplismart](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/anthropic-api-vs-simplismart.md)\n- [Antseed vs DeepSeek API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-deepseek-api.md)\n- [Antseed vs Simplismart](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-simplismart.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs DeepSeek API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-deepseek-api.md)\n- [BlockRun.AI vs Simplismart](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/blockrun-ai-vs-simplismart.md)\n- [Cerebras Inference vs DeepSeek API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebras-inference-vs-deepseek-api.md)\n- 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