DeepSeek API

Name: DeepSeek API API
Brand: DeepSeek API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentAI/MLLanguage Modelsbearer3 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Generate chat completions with DeepSeek language models using an OpenAI-compatible request format, list available models, and check account balance.

Quickstart

Get started with DeepSeek API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"generate a chat completion with DeepSeek"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with DeepSeek API API.

Generate chat completions from prompts using DeepSeek models via POST /chat/completions

List the DeepSeek models available to the calling account through GET /models

Check remaining account balance and granted credit with GET /user/balance

Stream multi-turn assistant responses by reusing the OpenAI-compatible message format

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Use for: I want to generate a chat completion with a DeepSeek model, List all DeepSeek models available to my account, Check the remaining balance on my DeepSeek account, Get the response from DeepSeek for a multi-turn conversation

Not supported: Does not handle image generation, audio transcription, fine-tuning, or embeddings — use for DeepSeek chat completions and account state only.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for DeepSeek API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for DeepSeek API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. DeepSeek provides access to its family of large language models through an OpenAI-compatible chat completions interface, making it straightforward to swap into existing tooling. The API exposes chat completions, model listings, and account balance lookups so agents can generate responses, choose between available DeepSeek models, and monitor remaining credit. Authentication uses Bearer tokens and the surface is intentionally small, with three endpoints covering inference and account state.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use DeepSeek API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ OpenAI-Compatible Chat Completions

Drop DeepSeek into an existing OpenAI-compatible client by pointing the base URL at api.deepseek.com and supplying a Bearer token. The /chat/completions endpoint accepts the same message and parameter shape, allowing teams to evaluate DeepSeek outputs against other providers without rewriting their inference layer. This is the fastest way to A/B test model quality and pricing.

Send a chat completion request to /chat/completions with a system prompt and user message, then return the assistant content.

Model Selection and Discovery

Before issuing a chat completion, an agent or developer can call /models to see which DeepSeek model identifiers the account has access to. This avoids hard-coded model names that drift over time and lets agents pick the most appropriate model at runtime. The list is small and stable, suitable for caching for short windows.

Call GET /models, parse the returned model list, and select the first chat-capable model id for the next completion.

Account Balance Monitoring

DeepSeek exposes /user/balance so applications can check remaining credit before issuing expensive completions. This lets agents and dashboards flag low balances, pause non-essential calls, or trigger top-ups. The endpoint returns granted, topped-up, and total balance figures suitable for billing alerts.

Call GET /user/balance and emit a warning if the total balance falls below a configured threshold.

AI Agent Integration via Jentic

Through Jentic, an agent finds DeepSeek by searching for an inference intent rather than reading docs. Jentic returns the matching operation schema for /chat/completions, the agent fills in the messages, and the call executes with the API key resolved from the Jentic vault. Swapping providers becomes a search query change, not a rewrite.

Use Jentic to search for 'generate text with DeepSeek', load the chat completions schema, and execute a request with a user prompt.

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for deepseek api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/chat/completions

Create a chat completion

GET

/models

List available DeepSeek models

GET

/user/balance

Get remaining account balance

POST

/chat/completions

Create a chat completion

GET

/models

List available DeepSeek models

GET

/user/balance

Get remaining account balance

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

DeepSeek Bearer API keys are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive scoped execution contexts and never see the raw key in their prompt or memory.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g. 'generate a chat completion') and Jentic returns the DeepSeek /chat/completions operation with its full input schema, so the agent can call the right endpoint without reading docs.

Time to first call

Direct DeepSeek integration: a few hours to wire auth, retries, and balance checks. Through Jentic: under 15 minutes from search to first executed completion.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

OpenAI API

OpenAI's GPT models with the same chat completions request shape DeepSeek mirrors.

Choose OpenAI when you need GPT-4 class reasoning, function calling, or the broader ecosystem of fine-tuning and assistants features.

Alternative

Anthropic API

Claude family models with a separate messages format and longer context windows.

Choose Anthropic when you need Claude's safety profile, larger context windows, or tool-use behaviour for agentic workloads.

Alternative

Groq API

Low-latency inference for open-weight models served on Groq's LPU hardware.

Choose Groq when latency dominates the cost function and you can use one of its hosted open-weight models.

Complementary

Mistral AI API

European LLM provider with comparable chat completions surface and embeddings.

Use alongside DeepSeek when you need an EU-hosted alternative or want to compare reasoning across model families.

FAQs

Specific to using DeepSeek API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for DeepSeek API?

DeepSeek does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call DeepSeek API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the DeepSeek API use?

The DeepSeek API uses HTTP Bearer token authentication. Pass your DeepSeek API key in the Authorization header as `Authorization: Bearer <key>`. Through Jentic, the key is stored in the encrypted vault and never enters the agent's context window.

Can I use the DeepSeek API as a drop-in for OpenAI?

Yes. The /chat/completions endpoint accepts the same messages array and parameters as the OpenAI chat completions API, so most OpenAI client libraries work by changing the base URL to https://api.deepseek.com and supplying a DeepSeek Bearer key.

How do I list the DeepSeek models my account can use?

Call GET /models with your Bearer token. The response contains the DeepSeek model identifiers available for chat completion requests, which you then pass as the `model` field on POST /chat/completions.

How do I check my remaining DeepSeek balance?

Call GET /user/balance. The endpoint returns granted credit, topped-up credit, and total remaining balance, which agents can use to gate expensive inference calls.

How do I generate a DeepSeek chat completion through Jentic?

Run `pip install jentic`, then search for 'generate text with DeepSeek', load the /chat/completions operation, and execute with your messages payload. Jentic resolves the Bearer token from the vault at execution time.