This reading’s conditionsAs of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · 7 platforms · 5–11 Jan 2026
- As of
- 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z
- Coverage computed
- 2 Oct 2026 03:23Z
- Facts checked
- 2 Oct 2026 03:27:35Z
- 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, V2
- 12 posts linked. Precision 93.3% (95% interval 84.1% to 97.4%), n 60 links judged, 0 unclear, run 18.
Measured statements
Written by fixed rules from this reading’s stored figures. No model writes them.
5 statements withheld. n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. No posts about DeepSeek API on Hacker News between 5 and 11 January 2026. No posts about DeepSeek API on arXiv between 5 and 11 January 2026. Withheld for platforms not counted this week: Bluesky and Google News.
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 archive |
Not counted: Bluesky, YouTube, Google News and 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-W02
- Window
- 5–11 Jan 2026
- Version
- 5 · no revisions
- Next release
- Wednesday 21 Jan 2026
- Method
- 005c-series-v3.1
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.
Not counted this week. Bluesky and Google News have no day in this window that counts, so they have no figures here.
Reddit. People hidden: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Share and posts hidden: n 12 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.
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 5–11 Jan 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 1 earlier stored week of the same era (2026-W01), 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.
W01–W02
W01–W02
People
Hidden
Hidden
W01
W02
Share of Reddit posts
Hidden
Hidden
W01
W02
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.
Posts about DeepSeek API by community, 5–11 Jan 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.
Change
Nothing in this reading could be compared with the previous reading of DeepSeek API, for 29 Dec 2025 – 4 Jan 2026.
10 measures not compared, and why
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Reddit. n 0 people between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 5 and 11 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Bluesky. n 0 people between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 5 and 11 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 5 and 11 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Hacker News. n 0 people between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. n 0 people between 5 and 11 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 people for a change. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, arXiv. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: arXiv posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- People posting about DeepSeek API, Google News. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: Google News posts are articles, which have no authors, so people aren't counted.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Reddit posts. n 2 posts between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 12 posts between 5 and 11 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: n 2 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: n 12 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Bluesky posts. n 0 posts between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 5 and 11 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: Not counted this week: Bluesky has no day between 5 and 11 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Hacker News posts. n 0 posts between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 5 and 11 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DeepSeek API’s share of arXiv posts. n 0 posts between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 5 and 11 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: n 0 posts, below the threshold of 20 posts.
- DeepSeek API’s share of Google News posts. n 0 posts between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. n 0 posts between 5 and 11 January 2026, below the threshold of 100 posts for a change. Between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 29 December 2025 and 4 January 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there's no figure to show. Between 5 and 11 January 2026: Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 5 and 11 January 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 03:23Z
- Facts checked
- 2 Oct 2026 03:27:35Z
- 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
- 2026-01-05 · backfilled
- 2026-01-06 · backfilled
- 2026-01-07 · backfilled
- 2026-01-08 · backfilled
- 2026-01-09 · backfilled
- 2026-01-10 · backfilled
- 2026-01-11 · backfilled
Bluesky
- 2026-01-05 · not started
- 2026-01-06 · not started
- 2026-01-07 · not started
- 2026-01-08 · not started
- 2026-01-09 · not started
- 2026-01-10 · not started
- 2026-01-11 · not started
YouTube
- 2026-01-05 · not started
- 2026-01-06 · not started
- 2026-01-07 · not started
- 2026-01-08 · not started
- 2026-01-09 · not started
- 2026-01-10 · not started
- 2026-01-11 · not started
Hacker News
- 2026-01-05 · backfilled
- 2026-01-06 · backfilled
- 2026-01-07 · backfilled
- 2026-01-08 · backfilled
- 2026-01-09 · backfilled
- 2026-01-10 · backfilled
- 2026-01-11 · backfilled
arXiv
- 2026-01-05 · backfilled
- 2026-01-06 · backfilled
- 2026-01-07 · backfilled
- 2026-01-08 · backfilled
- 2026-01-09 · backfilled
- 2026-01-10 · backfilled
- 2026-01-11 · backfilled
Google News
- 2026-01-05 · not started
- 2026-01-06 · not started
- 2026-01-07 · not started
- 2026-01-08 · not started
- 2026-01-09 · not started
- 2026-01-10 · not started
- 2026-01-11 · not started
Exa
- 2026-01-05 · not started
- 2026-01-06 · not started
- 2026-01-07 · not started
- 2026-01-08 · not started
- 2026-01-09 · not started
- 2026-01-10 · not started
- 2026-01-11 · 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 · 5–11 Jan 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 · 5–11 Jan 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 · 5–11 Jan 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 · 5–11 Jan 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 and Google News.
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-W02. Its figures never change: a correction or revision is a new reading. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. 'DeepSeek API', release 2026-W02, reading r_fcf1d3660dfe (v5). Published 2 October 2026.
Permanent link /r/r_fcf1d3660dfe
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.
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