This reading’s conditionsAs of 24 Sep 2026 21:27:07Z · 7 platforms · 14–20 Sep 2026
- As of
- 24 Sep 2026 21:27:07Z
- Coverage computed
- 24 Sep 2026 23:30:02Z
- Facts checked
- 25 Sep 2026 00:02:16Z
Measured statements
In development Written by fixed rules from this reading’s stored figures. No model writes them.
On Reddit, 82 distinct people posted about DeepSeek API between 14 and 20 September 2026: 93 posts, 0.03% of that week's Reddit posts, leaving out posts not about AI and spam, bot and incentive posts (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Reddit · 14–20 Sep 2026 · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 4 active, 3 backfilled · 1 partial
1 more statement withheld. YouTube: its figure is hidden (n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people).
What this reading rests on
| Platform | Days counted | How the posts were collected |
|---|---|---|
| 7 of 7 | Collected live on 4 days, loaded afterwards from an archive on 31 day partial | |
| Bluesky | 4 of 7 | Collected live1 day partial, 1 day late heavy |
| YouTube | 4 of 7 | Collected live1 day partial |
| Hacker News | 7 of 7 | Collected live on 5 days, loaded afterwards from an archive on 21 day partial |
| arXiv | 7 of 7 | Collected live on 5 days, loaded afterwards from an archive on 21 day partial, 2 days low capture |
Not counted: Google News, no longer collected.
Not counted: Exa, collected only now and then.
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: The method is still being validated.
- Released
- 2 Oct 2026
- Release
- 2026-W38
- Window
- 14–20 Sep 2026
- Version
- 2 · superseded
- Next release
- Wednesday 30 Sep 2026
- Method
- 003-relevance-v1
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.
#25 of 42 on Reddit88 people · Claude 8,811 (#1)
42 ranked subjects, each a tick on Reddit’s own people scale, 0 to 8,811. 43 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 Bluesky: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Not ranked on YouTube: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Not ranked on Hacker News: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
Distinct people who posted about each subject on each platform, 14–20 Sep 2026, as of 2 Oct 2026 04:00Z, from release 2026-W38’s summary table (published; every figure coverage-limited). 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 93 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 4 active, 3 backfilled · 1 partial · sample: 10 posts, one per author
Bluesky. People hidden: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and posts hidden: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
YouTube. People hidden: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and posts hidden: n 1 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
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.
Google News. People not applicable: Google News 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.
Exa. People not applicable: Exa 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. In development. What: DeepSeek API’s attention and place in 2026-W38, from subject links made by rule run 10. Why: the method is still being validated. Link precision, checked by run 11 per method, not per subject: alias links 93.3% (56 of 60 judged), context links 98.3% (59 of 60 judged); on Reddit, 100% of this subject’s posts were linked by alias. Filtering: posts not about AI, and spam, bot and incentive posts, are excluded, as labelled by an open model in relevance run 8 (relevance-v1; it agrees with a stronger model on 92.1% of 3,000 W38 posts) and run 9 (non_discourse-v1; κ 0.648 against a stronger model on 600 W38 posts). What’s missing: frames and register arrive with build 4. When the label goes: when frames and register are measured and the thresholds are set before launch. The agreement is model-to-model.
In development. In development. What: DeepSeek API’s attention and place in 2026-W38, from subject links made by rule run 10. Why: the method is still being validated. Link precision, checked by run 11 per method, not per subject: alias links 93.3% (56 of 60 judged), context links 98.3% (59 of 60 judged). Filtering: posts not about AI, and spam, bot and incentive posts, are excluded, as labelled by an open model in relevance run 8 (relevance-v1; it agrees with a stronger model on 92.1% of 3,000 W38 posts) and run 9 (non_discourse-v1; κ 0.648 against a stronger model on 600 W38 posts). What’s missing: frames and register arrive with build 4. When the label goes: when frames and register are measured and the thresholds are set before launch. The agreement is model-to-model.
In development. In development. What: DeepSeek API’s attention and place in 2026-W38, from subject links made by rule run 10. Why: the method is still being validated. Link precision, checked by run 11 per method, not per subject: alias links 93.3% (56 of 60 judged), context links 98.3% (59 of 60 judged); on YouTube, 100% of this subject’s posts were linked by alias. Filtering: posts not about AI, and spam, bot and incentive posts, are excluded, as labelled by an open model in relevance run 8 (relevance-v1; it agrees with a stronger model on 92.1% of 3,000 W38 posts) and run 9 (non_discourse-v1; κ 0.648 against a stronger model on 600 W38 posts). What’s missing: frames and register arrive with build 4. When the label goes: when frames and register are measured and the thresholds are set before launch. The agreement is model-to-model.
Posts published 14–20 Sep 2026, as of 24 Sep 2026 21:27:07Z; 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. There’s no normal share to compare with yet: a baseline needs earlier weeks of this subject. 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.
W36–W38
W35–W38
People
W35
W36
W37
W38
Share of Reddit posts
W35
W36
W37
W38
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 93 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, 14–20 Sep 2026, as of 24 Sep 2026 21:27:07Z; 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 1,754
- DeepSeek Harness 107
- DeepSeek API 88
- DeepSeek app 27
DeepSeek’s entry includes these; not added.Each product is also its own entry in the summary table.
Distinct people on Reddit, 14–20 Sep 2026, as of 2 Oct 2026 04:00Z, from release 2026-W38’s summary table; published. Every bar is on Reddit’s people scale.
Change
Change isn’t read against the week before (2026-W37) yet: this reading was made before that week’s readings were stored.
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
- 24 Sep 2026 21:27:07Z
- Coverage computed
- 24 Sep 2026 23:30:02Z
- Facts checked
- 25 Sep 2026 00:02:16Z
- 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
- 2026-09-14 · backfilled
- 2026-09-15 · backfilled
- 2026-09-16 · backfilled
- 2026-09-17 · active · partial
- 2026-09-18 · active
- 2026-09-19 · active
- 2026-09-20 · active
Bluesky
- 2026-09-14 · not started
- 2026-09-15 · not started
- 2026-09-16 · not started
- 2026-09-17 · active · partial, late heavy
- 2026-09-18 · active
- 2026-09-19 · active
- 2026-09-20 · active
YouTube
- 2026-09-14 · not started
- 2026-09-15 · not started
- 2026-09-16 · not started
- 2026-09-17 · active · partial
- 2026-09-18 · active
- 2026-09-19 · active
- 2026-09-20 · active
Hacker News
- 2026-09-14 · backfilled
- 2026-09-15 · backfilled
- 2026-09-16 · active · partial
- 2026-09-17 · active
- 2026-09-18 · active
- 2026-09-19 · active
- 2026-09-20 · active
arXiv
- 2026-09-14 · backfilled
- 2026-09-15 · backfilled
- 2026-09-16 · active · partial
- 2026-09-17 · active
- 2026-09-18 · active
- 2026-09-19 · active · low capture
- 2026-09-20 · active · low capture
Google News
- 2026-09-14 · not started
- 2026-09-15 · not started
- 2026-09-16 · active · partial
- 2026-09-17 · active · partial
- 2026-09-18 · no lane
- 2026-09-19 · no lane
- 2026-09-20 · no lane
Exa
- 2026-09-14 · not started
- 2026-09-15 · not started
- 2026-09-16 · not started
- 2026-09-17 · episodic · partial, late heavy
- 2026-09-18 · episodic
- 2026-09-19 · episodic
- 2026-09-20 · episodic
Excluded: posts not about AI
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 8 labels not about AI, Reddit
In development: labels from relevance run 8 (an open model, relevance-v1).
n 0 posts · Reddit · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 4 active, 3 backfilled, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 8 labels not about AI, Bluesky
In development: labels from relevance run 8 (an open model, relevance-v1).
n 0 posts · Bluesky · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 4 active, 3 not started, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 8 labels not about AI, YouTube
In development: labels from relevance run 8 (an open model, relevance-v1).
n 0 posts · YouTube · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 4 active, 3 not started, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 8 labels not about AI, Hacker News
In development: labels from relevance run 8 (an open model, relevance-v1).
n 0 posts · Hacker News · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 5 active, 2 backfilled, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 8 labels not about AI, arXiv
In development: labels from relevance run 8 (an open model, relevance-v1).
n 0 posts · arXiv · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 5 active, 2 backfilled, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 8 labels not about AI, Google News
In development: labels from relevance run 8 (an open model, relevance-v1).
n 0 posts · Google News · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 2 active, 2 not started, 3 no lane, 2 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API that relevance run 8 labels not about AI, Exa
In development: labels from relevance run 8 (an open model, relevance-v1).
n 0 posts · Exa · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 4 episodic, 3 not started, 1 partial
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
Excluded: spam, bots and incentive posts
Posts linked to DeepSeek API about AI that run 9 labels spam, bot or incentive, Reddit
In development: labels from run 9 (an open model, non_discourse-v1).
n 8 posts · Reddit · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 4 active, 3 backfilled, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API about AI that run 9 labels spam, bot or incentive, Bluesky
In development: labels from run 9 (an open model, non_discourse-v1).
n 1 posts · Bluesky · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 4 active, 3 not started, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API about AI that run 9 labels spam, bot or incentive, YouTube
In development: labels from run 9 (an open model, non_discourse-v1).
n 0 posts · YouTube · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 4 active, 3 not started, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API about AI that run 9 labels spam, bot or incentive, Hacker News
In development: labels from run 9 (an open model, non_discourse-v1).
n 0 posts · Hacker News · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 5 active, 2 backfilled, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API about AI that run 9 labels spam, bot or incentive, arXiv
In development: labels from run 9 (an open model, non_discourse-v1).
n 0 posts · arXiv · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 5 active, 2 backfilled, 1 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API about AI that run 9 labels spam, bot or incentive, Google News
In development: labels from run 9 (an open model, non_discourse-v1).
n 0 posts · Google News · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 2 active, 2 not started, 3 no lane, 2 partial
Posts linked to DeepSeek API about AI that run 9 labels spam, bot or incentive, Exa
In development: labels from run 9 (an open model, non_discourse-v1).
n 0 posts · Exa · 14–20 Sep 2026 · 7 days: 4 episodic, 3 not started, 1 partial
Each platform’s share is stated on its own and never combined.
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: this reading was made before they were.
- Register
- Register isn’t measured yet: this reading was made before it was.
- Frame evidence
- Quotes for each frame come with frames. The posts behind each figure are its fixed sample, in the figure’s conditions.
Cite this reading
In development Published 2 Oct 2026. Release 2026-W38. Its figures never change: a correction or revision is a new reading. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. 'DeepSeek API', release 2026-W38, reading r_9d65315fe434 (v2). In development. Published 2 October 2026.
Permanent link /r/r_9d65315fe434
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.
The reading’s PDF is being made.
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