DeepSeek Refunds 7 Day API Costs After 5 Hour System Crash

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The company's API and website experienced a blackout for nearly 5 hours on October 15, affecting its Dialogue and V4.1 Flash services. DeepSeek confirmed in a statement that the outage lasted from 8:11 to 13:04 Beijing time and resulted from a system failure rather than a model update. To compensate users, the firm is issuing credits equal to all API consumption from October 8 to October 14.

The company stated it has since eliminated single point dependencies to prevent future crashes. The disruption, one of the longest since the R1 model launch, drove queues of more than 20,000 people for the DSV4.1 model on the Workbuddy platform and caused failures in other domestic AI tools that route through DeepSeek's official API.

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DeepSeek Refunds 7 Day API Costs After 5 Hour System Crash

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45%Refund Contains Damage+0.1%
25%Reliability Discount Cycle-0.1%
18%Disclosure Scrutiny Intensifies-0.1%

Each figure is the modeled move of the S&P 500 if the outcome occurs. For information only. Not investment advice.