DeepSeek

Overview

DeepSeek builds high-performance language models with strong reasoning capabilities, including the chain-of-thought DeepSeek Reasoner. Floopy proxies requests to DeepSeek’s OpenAI-compatible API and surfaces reasoning token metrics via response headers.

Supported Models

Setup

1. Go to Settings > Providers in the dashboard.
2. Click Add provider and select DeepSeek.
3. Paste your DeepSeek API key and click Save.

Usage

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.floopy.ai/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.FLOOPY_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "deepseek-chat",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Explain quantum computing." }],
});

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.floopy.ai/v1", api_key=os.environ["FLOOPY_API_KEY"])

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-chat",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing."}],
)

curl https://api.floopy.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FLOOPY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "deepseek-chat", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing."}]}'

Provider-Specific Features

• Reasoning tokens — When using deepseek-reasoner, Floopy returns a Floopy-Reasoning-Tokens response header with the number of tokens used for chain-of-thought reasoning, separate from the completion token count.
• Chain-of-thought — DeepSeek Reasoner performs multi-step reasoning before producing its final answer, making it well suited for math, logic, and complex analysis tasks.

Fallback

Route to OpenAI if DeepSeek is unavailable:

curl https://api.floopy.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FLOOPY_API_KEY" \
  -H "x-floopy-fallback-provider: openai" \
  -H "x-floopy-fallback-model: o3-mini" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "deepseek-reasoner", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'