Partial Outage of DeepSeek V4 Pro API; Results Being Monitored After Recovery Measures

DeepSeek's V4 Pro API service experienced a partial outage on the 3rd, with the company's official status page showing recovery measures implemented and results under monitoring for 15 minutes. The disruption affected only the V4 Pro API, the channel through which external programs call DeepSeek's AI models, while web and other API services remained unaffected. The incident comes shortly after DeepSeek began charging for Search and Fetch API calls in some coding tools starting at 1 a.m. on the 1st, at 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests, with no fees for failed, empty, or timed-out requests. The company has previously experienced temporary API performance degradation followed by recovery. Investors and developers should watch whether the recovery holds and whether the outage affects confidence in the newly monetized API services.