DeepSeek's website and API were down for about five hours before recovering.

PANews, October 15 news: The official status page shows that the system is now operating normally. DeepSeek's web interface, App, and API experienced a large-scale outage on the morning of October 15. Commands sent by users kept spinning, with frequent pop-ups saying "Server is busy" and "Server is temporarily unavailable," and some conversations were interrupted midway. The outage lasted about five hours, during which it was intermittent, and has now been restored. Since 2026, DeepSeek has experienced at least 18 large-scale service anomalies, including an outage of more than 12 hours at the end of March.

PANews, October 15 news: The official status page shows that the system is now operating normally. DeepSeek's web interface, App, and API experienced a large-scale outage on the morning of October 15. Commands sent by users kept spinning, with frequent pop-ups saying "Server busy" and "Server temporarily unavailable," and some conversations were interrupted halfway through. The outage lasted about five hours, during which it was intermittent, and has now been restored.

Since 2026, DeepSeek has experienced at least 18 large-scale service anomalies, including an outage of more than 12 hours at the end of March.