Free DeepSeek API. No key. No account.

A community-run, OpenAI-compatible gateway to deepseek-flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. Your client solves a one-second proof-of-work puzzle — that is the whole signup.

go install github.com/thevibeworks/deepseek-cli/cmd/deepseek@latest
deepseek free
deepseek chat "why is the sky blue"

OpenAI-compatible: point any OpenAI client at base URL https://freeseek.1lm.io. Shared community pool — be kind, no SLA.

Live status

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—requests today

—people today

—requests · 30d

—requests · all time

—uptime

requests per day — last 30 days

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Budget

today's budget remaining—

credit pool remaining—

daily budget resets at 00:00 UTC

Totals

	today	lifetime
requests	—	—
input tokens	—	—
output tokens	—	—

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Is it us or DeepSeek?

this gateway —
DeepSeek upstream —
free upstream —

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Measured from our own calls to api.deepseek.com, not from a status page — a page cannot see a route that is broken only from here. The free upstream is a separate service we try first for chat; what it refuses goes to DeepSeek, so a bad day there costs you latency, not answers. DeepSeek's own incident page is the place to check for anything wider.

Endpoints

no data yet

Countries

no data yet

Right now

in flight —
tokens/sec —
requests/min —
active (5m) —

A pool this size is idle most of the day, so these are usually zero. That is the honest reading, not a broken widget — the daily chart above is where the traffic shows.

Top users today

anonymous ids — the gateway never sees names, emails or accounts
anonymous id	requests	input tokens	output tokens
no data yet

Key pool

— active · — retired · — total · — donated

Running on donated DeepSeek API keys. Want to donate one? Open an issue and we'll arrange a private channel — keys are never accepted through any web form, including this page.

System

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How it works

Proof of work. Your client burns about one second of CPU on a small puzzle. No email, no signup, no tracking — the puzzle is the gate.
Token. The gateway hands back a short-lived anonymous token tied to nothing but that puzzle solution.
Metered proxy. Requests are counted against fair-use limits and forwarded to DeepSeek on pooled keys.

Per-user daily limits

30 requests
60k input tokens
20k output tokens

Server-side web_search is gone: DeepSeek removed it from the Responses API on 2026-09-10, with V4.1 Flash, and now ignores the tool. A request that carries it is refused here with that reason rather than answered from memory as if it had searched.