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DeepSeek. @deepseek
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Provider DeepSeek
Last review 2026-09-14
What you get
the numbers that matterUSD 0.003GBP 0.0024ZAR 0.0555
usage-based
≈ 2 weeks
signed to first PR
96%
engagements renewed
96%
to your stack & domain
DeepSeek's cost-efficient reasoning and general models, with open-weight releases and a usage-based API. Scrums.com delivery teams integrate and govern them inside your stack on the SEOP.
How this operator works
every way of working, already decidedOwns the system, not the ticket
Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.
Embedded, async-first, instrumented
Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.
Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys
Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.
Plugged into your Slack & rituals
Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.
Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours
Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.
Scoped, gated, reversible
Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.
Overview
DeepSeek is an AI lab known for pushing the cost-efficiency frontier — reasoning and general-purpose models that deliver strong capability at a fraction of typical inference cost. Its models are available through a usage-based API and as open-weight releases under permissive licences, which made the family widely adopted for self-hosted deployment.
Through Scrums.com, DeepSeek models become a governed part of your stack. Scrums.com delivery teams integrate them into your products, pipelines, and agents — with evals, guardrails, and cost and outcome tracking on the SEOP.
What it does
Cost-efficient reasoning
The family includes reasoning models that work through multi-step problems at notably low inference cost, suiting high-volume analytical workloads.
Code generation
DeepSeek models perform strongly on software engineering tasks — generation, completion, and review across languages.
Open-weight releases
Major models in the family ship as open weights under permissive licences, deployable on your own infrastructure.
General text generation
General-purpose models cover chat, summarisation, extraction, and language tasks for production features.
Deploying it with Scrums.com
- Scope. Scrums.com assesses which DeepSeek models and hosting patterns fit your use cases — including whether your compliance posture calls for self-hosted weights rather than the hosted API.
- Integrate. Scrums.com engineers wire the API or self-hosted deployment into your products, pipelines, and agents with evals and guardrails.
- Operate. Model usage runs under governance, with cost and quality reporting via the SEOP.
Commercial availability
DeepSeek offers a hosted, usage-based API, and releases major models as open weights under permissive licences; the open models are also served by third-party inference providers and clouds. Model usage is contracted with DeepSeek or your chosen host; Scrums.com delivers the integration, governance, and operation around it.
FAQs
Are DeepSeek's models open weights or hosted API?
Both. DeepSeek runs a hosted API and releases major models as open weights, which can be self-hosted or consumed through third-party inference providers. Many enterprises choose the open weights for control over data flows.
What does a deployment need?
A DeepSeek API account for hosted access, or GPU infrastructure (or a third-party inference provider) for the open weights — plus scoped access to the systems the models will serve.
Where does our data flow?
Hosted API usage flows to DeepSeek's endpoints, operated from China — a factor to weigh in your compliance review. Self-hosted open weights keep prompts and outputs entirely inside your infrastructure. Scrums.com designs the deployment so the data boundary matches your requirements.
Callable endpoint
api · mcp · metered per callPrices are the provider's published per-call terms.
What's included
in every engagement · no add-onsTrack record
deployments on real systems · anonymized| Sector | System | Outcome | Span | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | payments-core ledger | 99.97% achieved | 14 mo | ● complete |
| Commerce | checkout platform | −38% incident rate | 9 mo | ● complete |
| Health SaaS | data plane | 0 SEV1 in 6 mo | 11 mo | ● active |
| Logistics | routing engine | zero-downtime cutover | 7 mo | ● complete |
| AI infra | inference cluster | p99 −120 ms | 5 mo | ● active |
Works inside your stack
surfaces this operator binds to| Surface | Binding | Direction | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | github.com/<org> | reviews + writes | OIDC |
| CI / CD | scm-flow · deploy-service | gates deploys | OIDC |
| Observability | otlp://collector:4317 | metrics + alerts | mTLS |
| Comms | slack://<workspace> | standups, incidents | SSO |
| Secrets | vault://scrums/op/<id> | short-lived creds | SPIFFE |
| On-call | pagerduty://<org> | primary / secondary | API token |
Boundaries
what to deploy insteadScoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →
Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.
Deployments
the only social proof we publish402deploys
across 38 organizations
+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%
Pricing
one number · one footnoteUSD 0.003GBP 0.0024ZAR 0.0555
All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.
Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
FAQ
common questionsHow is DeepSeek priced?
USD 0.003 (usage-based). Final pricing is computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
Is DeepSeek available now?
Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.
Can a DeepSeek deployment be reversed?
Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.
Who provides DeepSeek?
DeepSeek, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.
How it compares
vs other models| Option | From | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek · this one | USD 0.003GBP 0.0024ZAR 0.0555 | agent · model-providers · reasoning | ● available |
| Anthropic | Priced on scope | agent · model-providers · coding | ● available |
| Gemini | Priced on scope | agent · model-providers · multimodal | ● available |
| OpenAI | USD 0.0001GBP 0.0001ZAR 0.0019 | agent · model-providers · reasoning | ● available |