This reading’s conditionsAs of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · 7 platforms · 20–26 Apr 2026
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z
- Facts checked
- 2 Oct 2026 08:05:08Z
- Spam, bot and incentive filter, not applied yet
- Spam, bot and incentive posts haven’t been removed: their labels agree with a stronger model at kappa 0.43, below the threshold of 0.60
How posts were linked to the subject
- Unambiguous alias, V1
- 2 posts linked. Precision 100.0% (95% interval 91.2% to 100.0%), n 40 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
- Unambiguous alias, V2
- 44 posts linked. Precision 93.3% (95% interval 84.1% to 97.4%), n 60 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
Measured statements
In development Written by fixed rules from this reading’s stored figures. No model writes them.
On Reddit, 38 distinct people posted about DeepSeek API between 20 and 26 April 2026: 46 posts, an estimated 0.02% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out templated automated posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Reddit · 20–26 Apr 2026 · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
6 more statements withheld. No posts about DeepSeek API on Hacker News between 20 and 26 April 2026. No posts about DeepSeek API on arXiv between 20 and 26 April 2026. Withheld for platforms not counted this week: Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa.
What this reading rests on
| Platform | Days counted | How the posts were collected |
|---|---|---|
| 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive | |
| Hacker News | 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive |
| arXiv | 7 of 7 | Loaded afterwards from an archive1 day late heavy |
Not counted: Bluesky, YouTube and Google News, collected under an earlier method.
Not counted: Exa, not being collected yet.
A day counts once it has settled: once the posts still expected for it are below the threshold, or, for posts loaded afterwards from an archive, once they’re loaded. Coverage day by day is in this reading’s conditions. How coverage is recorded.
This reading was made with methods that are still being validated. Every figure says which state it’s in.
Why: Its methods are still being validated.
- Released
- 2 Oct 2026
- Release
- 2026-W17
- Window
- 20–26 Apr 2026
- Version
- 3 · no revisions
- Next release
- Wednesday 6 May 2026
- Method
- 005c-series-v3.1
DeepSeek API in each platform’s table
Where DeepSeek API sits among every ranked subject on each platform. The heavy mark is DeepSeek API; every thin mark is another subject.
#39 of 46 on Reddit38 people · Claude 14,444 (#1)
46 ranked subjects, each a tick on Reddit’s own people scale, 0 to 14,444. 39 more subjects aren’t ranked: their people figures are hidden (n 0–19 people, below the threshold of 20), so they aren’t drawn.
Not ranked on Hacker News: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
Distinct people who posted about each subject on each platform, 20–26 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, from release 2026-W17’s summary table (published). Each strip is on its own scale and nothing is added across platforms: one person can post on several. arXiv, Google News and Exa carry articles, which have no authors, so they have no ranking by people.
Attention
How many people posted about DeepSeek API on each platform, and DeepSeek API’s share of that platform’s posts. One row per platform, each on its own terms.
n 46 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled · sample: 10 posts, one per author
Not counted this week. Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa have no day in this window that counts, so they have no figures here.
Hacker News. People hidden: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and posts hidden: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
arXiv. People not applicable: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Share and posts hidden: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
In development. Spam, bot and incentive posts haven’t been removed: their labels agree with a stronger model at κ 0.43, below the threshold of 0.60. The agreement is model-to-model.
Posts published 20–26 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; in development. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms. Share is DeepSeek API’s posts over all posts AIDRAN captured on that platform in the window. Reddit’s posts include its comments. A normal share is deepSeek API's share of each platform's posts in the 16 earlier stored weeks of the same era (2026-W01, 2026-W02, 2026-W03, 2026-W04, 2026-W05, 2026-W06, 2026-W07, 2026-W08, 2026-W09, 2026-W10, 2026-W11, 2026-W12, 2026-W13, 2026-W14, 2026-W15, 2026-W16), per platform. Its figures are in those readings. Choose any number to see what it rests on and the posts behind it.
Stored weeks
DeepSeek API in every week AIDRAN has stored so far, four weeks at a time (three on a phone), opening on this reading’s week.
W15–W17
W14–W17
People
Hidden
Hidden
W14
W15
W16
W17
Share of Reddit posts
Hidden
Hidden
W14
W15
W16
W17
DeepSeek API’s people and share of platform posts, W01–W40, 40 stored weeks. Each chart is on its own scale from all of them. All 40 are in development; the open dot is this reading. Why a week is hidden or ringed is in the notes on stored weeks at the foot of this page.
Communities
The communities the conversation about DeepSeek API happened in, grouped by platform.
Redditeach track is DeepSeek API’s 46 Reddit posts
- r/DeepSeek users
The one community this reading stores; the rest of the track is posts in communities it doesn’t list.
Posts about DeepSeek API by community, 20–26 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; in development. Each platform is drawn on its own scale. The word after each community is its type: who is there, not what it’s about (users are people who use one AI product; builders build with AI). A post counts once, in the community it was posted in.
The family
The products under DeepSeek in AIDRAN’s subject tree, each ranked on Reddit in its own right.
- DeepSeek 1,510
- DeepSeek API 38
- DeepSeek app 34
DeepSeek’s entry includes these; not added.Each product is also its own entry in the summary table.
Distinct people on Reddit, 20–26 Apr 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, from release 2026-W17’s summary table; published. Every bar is on Reddit’s people scale.
Change
Nothing in this reading could be compared with the previous reading of DeepSeek API, for 13–19 Apr 2026.
14 measures not compared, and why
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Reddit. n 0 people between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 38 people between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: n 12 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Bluesky. n 0 people between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 13 and 19 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 20 and 26 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, YouTube. n 0 people between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 13 and 19 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 20 and 26 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Hacker News. n 0 people between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, arXiv. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Google News. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Exa. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: Exa posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: Exa posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Reddit posts. n 14 posts between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 46 posts between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: n 14 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Bluesky posts. n 0 posts between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 13 and 19 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 20 and 26 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- DeepSeek API’s share of YouTube posts. n 0 posts between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 13 and 19 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: Not counted this week: YouTube has no day between 20 and 26 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Hacker News posts. n 0 posts between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DeepSeek API’s share of arXiv posts. n 0 posts between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Google News posts. n 0 posts between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 13 and 19 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 20 and 26 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Exa posts. n 0 posts between 13 and 19 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 20 and 26 April 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 13 and 19 April 2026: Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 13 and 19 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 20 and 26 April 2026: Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 20 and 26 April 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
Change compares this reading with the previous stored reading of the same subject, usually last week’s, and both endpoints stay visible with their dates. Each value carries its n; open it for its full conditions, coverage included. Stored weeks, above, cross eras, which marks a change in how weeks were captured: March era weeks were rebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May, Archive backfill weeks were backfilled from archives (Reddit, Hacker News and arXiv only) and September era weeks were captured live from 16 Sep and filled in from archives.
Conditions
What every figure on this page rests on.
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 2 Oct 2026 07:23Z
- Facts checked
- 2 Oct 2026 08:05:08Z
- Posts without facts
- 0
- Author coverage basis
- posts with an identifiable platform identity; article sources have none by definition
Coverage in this window, day by day for each platform, is drawn once: in the conditions rail beside the measured statements.
Coverage in this window
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Bluesky
- 2026-04-20 · earlier method
- 2026-04-21 · earlier method
- 2026-04-22 · earlier method
- 2026-04-23 · earlier method
- 2026-04-24 · earlier method
- 2026-04-25 · earlier method
- 2026-04-26 · earlier method
YouTube
- 2026-04-20 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-21 · earlier method
- 2026-04-22 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-23 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-24 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-25 · earlier method · low capture
- 2026-04-26 · earlier method · low capture
Hacker News
- 2026-04-20 · backfilled
- 2026-04-21 · backfilled
- 2026-04-22 · backfilled
- 2026-04-23 · backfilled
- 2026-04-24 · backfilled
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arXiv
- 2026-04-20 · backfilled · late heavy
- 2026-04-21 · backfilled
- 2026-04-22 · backfilled
- 2026-04-23 · backfilled
- 2026-04-24 · backfilled
- 2026-04-25 · backfilled
- 2026-04-26 · backfilled
Google News
- 2026-04-20 · earlier method · low capture, late heavy
- 2026-04-21 · earlier method · low capture, late heavy
- 2026-04-22 · earlier method · low capture, late heavy
- 2026-04-23 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-24 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-25 · earlier method · late heavy
- 2026-04-26 · earlier method · late heavy
Exa
- 2026-04-20 · not started
- 2026-04-21 · not started
- 2026-04-22 · not started
- 2026-04-23 · not started
- 2026-04-24 · not started
- 2026-04-25 · not started
- 2026-04-26 · not started
Excluded: posts not about AI or unclear
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Reddit
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · Reddit · 20–26 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, Hacker News
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · Hacker News · 20–26 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 61 labels not about AI or unclear, arXiv
Labels from relevance run 61, an open model.
n 0 posts · arXiv · 20–26 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Excluded: templated automated posts
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that templated-repetition rule run 518 flags as one account repeating a template, Reddit
Flags from rule run 518: clusters of 4 or more near-identical posts in the week where one account posted at least half. In blind checks of samples, about 9 in 10 flags were one account repeating a template.
n 0 posts · Reddit · 20–26 Apr 2026 · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Not counted this week, so not shown: Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and Exa.
These conditions were frozen when the reading was created and are never recomputed.
Not in this reading yet
Parts this method doesn’t produce yet. They’re named, never shown as empty.
- Frames
- Frames aren’t measured yet.
- Register
- Register isn’t measured yet.
- Frame evidence
- Quotes for frames come with frames. The quotes here are the fixed samples behind this reading’s figures.
Cite this reading
In development Published 2 Oct 2026. Release 2026-W17. Its figures never change: a correction or revision is a new reading. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. 'DeepSeek API', release 2026-W17, reading r_235d8f49f225 (v3). Published 2 October 2026.
Permanent link /r/r_235d8f49f225
AIDRAN is the author and the publisher, so the citation names it once. Cite the permanent link, never a browse path.
Licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it with this citation.
References
DeepSeek API as its maker describes it. Chosen by hand and checked, and not part of the measurement.
Context from the week
News and analysis about DeepSeek API published that week, found and checked for relevance. It’s outside AIDRAN’s measurement: no figure on this page comes from it.
Notes on stored weeksWhy the Stored weeks charts hide or ring a week: 15 hidden and 3 coverage-limited platform weeks, each with its stored reason.
W01 people hidden: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 2 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W02 people hidden: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 12 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W03 people hidden: n 10 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 12 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W04 people hidden: n 12 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 12 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W05 people hidden: n 11 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 12 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W06 people hidden: n 10 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 10 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W07 people hidden: n 13 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 17 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W08–W09 people hidden: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 6 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W08 people hidden: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 6 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W09 people hidden: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 6 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W10 people hidden: n 18 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 19 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W11 people hidden: n 12 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 15 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W12 people hidden: n 11 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 13 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W13 people hidden: n 10 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 12 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W14 people hidden: n 9 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 12 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W16 people hidden: n 12 people, below the threshold of 20 people. share hidden: n 14 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
W10 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 7 March 2026
W22 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: partial capture on 31 May 2026
W38 coverage-limited: Partial day on Reddit: capture began at 00:24 UTC on 17 September 2026