DeepSeek Service Restored; At Least 10 Major Outages Have Occurred So Far This Year
On the afternoon of November 3, DeepSeek's chat feature was unavailable. The official status page showed that since 16:58, the web/API had been partially interrupted, affecting the chat service, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API. The official website subsequently said that the interruption had been fixed and was being monitored, but the two APIs and the chat service were still experiencing degraded performance. Official service status records show that there have been at least 10 major outages so far this year, including service unavailability, service anomalies, and more frequent reports of degraded performance.
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DeepSeek service has been restored; at least 10 large-scale outages have occurred so far this year. Phoenix Technology Download the app for exclusive early access. November 03, 2026 18:01:31 From Beijing. Updated November 03, 2026 17:44:47
Phoenix Technology News (Author/Yunfei) On the afternoon of November 3, DeepSeek's chat function became unavailable, and the chat interface displayed "Server busy, please try again later." Currently, DeepSeek's official website has updated its status saying that the previously occurring partial interruption of web and API services has been fixed and that it is monitoring the repair effect. However, the API services and chat services of DeepSeek V4 Pro and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash still have performance degradation.
DeepSeek's official status page shows that starting at 16:58, DeepSeek's web/API services were partially interrupted, and the official team is investigating the issue to locate the cause. Affected services include the Chat Service, the DeepSeek V4 Pro API service, and the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API service.
According to DeepSeek's official service status records, there have been at least 10 large-scale outages so far this year, including reports of "service unavailable, service abnormal," as well as more frequent reports of "performance degradation" abnormalities.
On the morning of October 15, DeepSeek experienced a service abnormality. The web version and App could not be used normally; after sending a message to the dialog box, the page displayed "Server temporarily unavailable." This outage lasted nearly 5 hours.
On October 12, its web service experienced a partial interruption, and the web and API services also experienced performance degradation. In September, the official team recorded multiple service abnormalities, including a web/API partial interruption on September 14 that lasted about 3 hours. Earlier, DeepSeek had also experienced longer-lasting service interruptions.