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This will help you getting started with DeepSeek chat models. For detailed documentation of all ChatDeepSeek features and configurations head to the API reference.

Overview

Integration details

Model features

See the links in the table headers below for guides on how to use specific features. Note that as of 1/27/25, tool calling and structured output are not currently supported for deepseek-reasoner.

Setup

To access DeepSeek models you’ll need to create a DeepSeek account, get an API key, and install the @langchain/deepseek integration package. You can also access the DeepSeek API through providers like Together AI or Ollama.

Credentials

Head to https://deepseek.com/ to sign up to DeepSeek and generate an API key. Once you’ve done this set the DEEPSEEK_API_KEY environment variable:
If you want to get automated tracing of your model calls you can also set your LangSmith API key by uncommenting below:

Installation

The LangChain ChatDeepSeek integration lives in the @langchain/deepseek package:

Instantiation

Now we can instantiate our model object and generate chat completions:

API reference

For detailed documentation of all ChatDeepSeek features and configurations head to the API reference: https://api.js.langchain.com/classes/_langchain_deepseek.ChatDeepSeek.html
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