DeepSeek()

DeepSeek models direct from DeepSeek, with your own API key. Costs go direct to the vendor at their rates — no markup, nothing on your Axon balance.

export default defineProfile({
    providers: [DeepSeek()],
})

Serves deepseek/*, excluding distills.

Credentials

Set the environment variable, or pass key on the declaration:

DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=...

providers: [DeepSeek({ key: process.env.MY_OWN_VAR })]

You can also store this key in your Axon account vault through the cloud client:

await cloud.user.vault.connections.get("deepseek").connect({ key: apiKey })

A fresh host signed into the same account can use the connection. Profiles without an explicit providers list discover active account connections automatically; an explicit list continues to restrict which providers that machine uses.

Explicit keys and environment variables take precedence over the account vault. A custom url requires an explicit credential. Provider SDKs ship with Axon.

Options

DeepSeek(options?: ProviderOptions)

Model ids

Bare DeepSeek slugs:

export default defineAgent({ model: "deepseek:deepseek-v4-pro" })

Distills are not served here

deepseek-r1-distill-* are other vendors' weights fine-tuned by DeepSeek and served by inference hosts — they are not models on DeepSeek's own API. Reach them through Groq(), OpenRouter(), or a local runtime.