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DeepSeek

Promptscape connects to DeepSeek's platform for easy consumption of their Chat and Reasoning models.

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DeepSeek reasoning models are also available from Ollama. Especially if all you need is one of the distilled R1 versions, running in Ollama on your local machine could be a better experience for you - not to mention, completely free!

Get DeepSeek R1 from Ollama

You Will Need​

  1. A DeepSeek Developer Account set up
  2. Some funding added to your account
  3. Your API key, obtained from this link

Adding a DeepSeek Model​

  1. Run the command Promptscape: Create a Model
  2. When prompted to choose a provider, choose deepseek
  3. Select either deepseek-chat or deepseek-reasoner
  4. Finally, provide your API key. The key will be securely stored in VSCode's secrets vault.

After completing these steps, follow the steps here to locate and activate your model for use.