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---
-title: DeepSeek API issues - Alternative providers
+title: Alternative DeepSeek V3 providers
excerpt: DeepSeek's API has been experiencing reliability issues. Here are alternative providers you can use.
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@@ -15,18 +15,19 @@ nav_exclude: true
DeepSeek's API has been experiencing significant reliability issues for the past 24-48+ hours, with many users reporting downtime and overload problems.
+Their [status page](https://status.deepseek.com) notes an ongoing incident.
-If you're affected by these issues, several alternative providers offer access to DeepSeek models. This article compares their performance on aider's polyglot benchmark to help you choose a reliable alternative.
+If you're affected by these issues, several alternative providers offer access to DeepSeek V3. This article compares their performance on aider's polyglot benchmark to help you choose a reliable alternative.
## Using alternative providers
-The benchmark results below show that several providers offer comparable or better performance than DeepSeek's native API. To switch providers, you'll need to:
+To use these providers, you'll need to create an account with them and obtain an API key.
-1. Sign up for an account with your chosen alternative provider
-2. Get their API key
-3. Update your aider configuration to use their endpoint
+## OpenRouter
-For example, to use OpenRouter:
+[OpenRouter offers many DeepSeek providers](https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-chat/providers)
+through their unified API.
+You can use aider with OpenRouter like this:
```bash
# Set your API key using environment variables
@@ -41,10 +42,13 @@ api-key:
- openrouter=
```
-## Configuring model settings
-
-You may want to configure specific settings when using alternative providers. For example, you can control which OpenRouter providers are used to serve the model, or set other model parameters.
+OpenRouter automatically monitors their providers and routes requests to stable
+APIs and away from those experiencing unreliable performance.
+But not all providers serve the same version of open source models, and not
+all have the same privacy guarantees.
+You can control which OpenRouter providers are used to serve the model via
+[aider's model settings](https://aider.chat/docs/config/adv-model-settings.html#model-settings).
Create a `.aider.model.settings.yml` file in your home directory or git project root with settings like this:
```yaml
@@ -58,7 +62,17 @@ Create a `.aider.model.settings.yml` file in your home directory or git project
allow_fallbacks: false
```
-Different providers may need different settings. For example, here's a configuration for using Fireworks:
+See [OpenRouter's provider routing docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/provider-routing) for more details.
+
+## Other providers
+
+You will need to properly configure aider to work with DeepSeek V3 when served
+via alternate providers.
+Aider is pre-configured to work well with V3 served via DeepSeek's direct API and via OpenRouter.
+
+For other providers, you should adapt this example configuration for using DeepSeek V3
+via Fireworks.
+You'll need to change the `name` field to match you chosen provider's model naming scheme.
```yaml
- name: fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-chat
@@ -78,9 +92,8 @@ Different providers may need different settings. For example, here's a configura
streaming: true
```
-You'll need to adapt these settings based on your chosen provider. See:
-- [OpenRouter's provider routing docs](https://openrouter.ai/docs/provider-routing) for OpenRouter-specific settings
-- [Advanced model settings](https://aider.chat/docs/config/adv-model-settings.html#model-settings) for details about all aider model settings
+
+See [Advanced model settings](https://aider.chat/docs/config/adv-model-settings.html#model-settings) for details about all aider model settings
## Results
@@ -115,7 +128,7 @@ You'll need to adapt these settings based on your chosen provider. See: