DeepSeek outage, October 15, 2026

DeepSeek's web chat, mobile app, and the APIs for its V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash models were down for 4 hours and 52 minutes on October 15, 2026, from 08:11 to 13:04 Beijing time (8:11 PM to 1:04 AM Eastern, October 14 to 15), according to the company's status page. The failure fell in peak weekday working hours in Asia and hit enterprise API users in the middle of operations.

DeepSeek apologized, said it has opened a full investigation and will identify and eliminate single points of failure, and compensated API customers with credits equal to their entire previous week of API spending (October 8 to 14), applied automatically and with no expiration. Some users reported credits above 1,000 yuan, with the largest reported at 3,000 yuan. PANews counts at least 18 large-scale service anomalies at DeepSeek in 2026, including an outage of more than 12 hours in late March.

Status: Restored. This incident is also covered on the News page's AI list.

Sources: TechNode, BigGo Finance, PANews