What breaks when DeepSeek goes down?

DeepSeek is an upstream dependency for 6 AI tools we track. When it has an outage, these can degrade or fail —

Blast radius
6
tools affected · 0 with no fallback

Tools that depend on DeepSeek

Ranked by how hard they break. Every relationship is sourced — click a badge to verify.

What to use instead right now

Operational tools that don't depend on DeepSeek (so a DeepSeekoutage won't take them with it):

ClaudeGeminiGrokCursorBoltPerplexityWindsurfLovableGitHub CopilotPoeMidjourneyElevenLabsRunway

Dependencies are curated and sourced (evidence shown per row). Impact and "no fallback" reflect public model/provider documentation, not a confirmed real-time outage of each product. AIDownCheck is independent and not affiliated with DeepSeek. See the full DeepSeek dependency profile →