DeepSeek

What you get

the numbers that matter

Starting price

USD 0.003

per request

Ready in

≈ 2 weeks

signed to first PR

Retention

96%

engagements renewed

Match

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 decided

A · capability focus

Owns 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.

B · ways of working

Embedded, async-first, instrumented

Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.

C · reliability posture

Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys

Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.

D · comms & cadence

Plugged into your Slack & rituals

Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.

E · tooling

Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours

Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.

F · onboarding

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 call

API basehttps://deepseek.mpp.paywithlocus.com

Protocolshttps · mpp

Executionrun

Accountuse

Price · runUSD 0.003 / request

Endpoints3

Docshttps://api-docs.deepseek.com

Open the API surface drawer for the per-endpoint price table. Prices are the provider's published per-call terms.

What's included

in every engagement · no add-ons

✓Cost-efficient reasoningincl.

✓Code generationincl.

✓Open-weight releasesincl.

✓General text generationincl.

Track record

deployments on real systems · anonymized

SectorSystemOutcomeSpanStatus

Fintechpayments-core ledger99.97% achieved14 mocomplete

Commercecheckout platform−38% incident rate9 mocomplete

Health SaaSdata plane0 SEV1 in 6 mo11 moactive

Logisticsrouting enginezero-downtime cutover7 mocomplete

AI infrainference clusterp99 −120 ms5 moactive

Works inside your stack

surfaces this operator binds to

SurfaceBindingDirectionAuth

Source controlgithub.com/<org>reviews + writesOIDC

CI / CDscm-flow · deploy-servicegates deploysOIDC

Observabilityotlp://collector:4317metrics + alertsmTLS

Commsslack://<workspace>standups, incidentsSSO

Secretsvault://scrums/op/<id>short-lived credsSPIFFE

On-callpagerduty://<org>primary / secondaryAPI token

Boundaries

what to deploy instead

Scoped 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 publish

402deploys

across 38 organizations

+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%

Live telemetry

this operator's system surface

system map

signals · last 24h

deploys18

p99 latency112 ms

error rate0.02%

incidents0

Pricing

one number · one footnote

per request

USD 0.003

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 questions

How is DeepSeek priced?+

USD 0.003. 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 agents

Option	From	Stack	Status
DeepSeek · this one	USD 0.003	agent · model-providers · reasoning	● available
Anthropic	Priced on scope	agent · model-providers · coding	● available
OpenAI	USD 0.0001	agent · model-providers · reasoning	● available
Mistral AI	USD 0.005	agent · model-providers · open-weights	● available

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