{"rid":"storage/deepseek-files-api","card":{"rid":"storage/deepseek-files-api","eid":"deepseek","topic":"storage","slug":"deepseek-files-api","provider":"DeepSeek Files API","url":"https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api","domain":"deepseek.com","category":"Chinese LLM platform /v1/files","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-egress","vorder":5,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":67108864,"retention_days":0,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":6,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if `expires_after` is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"deepseek-files-api","provider":"DeepSeek Files API","url":"https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api","category":"Chinese LLM platform /v1/files","free_tier":{"stated":"25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if `expires_after` is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"64 MiB per file","bytes":67108864,"source_url":"https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if `expires_after` is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days","days":0,"source_url":"https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Files API itself is free; only inference tokens are billed. No egress fee documented.","metered":false},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"OpenAI-compatible POST /files, and an Anthropic-compatible /anthropic/v1/files; also list/retrieve/delete","tooling":"openai-python with base_url https://api.deepseek.com; curl multipart; ai-sdk deepseek provider ships a file store","chaining":"25 GiB is per *user*, not per project — no obvious multiplicative axis except more accounts. Image-only format restriction (JPEG/PNG/GIF/WebP, sniffed from content) makes it a picture store rather than a blob store.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"64 MiB per file","source":"https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap 64 MiB. Upload must complete within 10 minutes. Count cap 10,000 files. `purpose` must be `user_data`. Omit `expires_after` for permanence — '少写一个参数，文件就永久留在他服务器上' (omit one parameter and the file stays on their server forever).","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"email","country":null},"reliability_note":"NO DOWNLOAD. The endpoint set is upload/list/retrieve-metadata/delete — there is no content-download route, and the docs describe retrieval as metadata only ('Retrieving file information returns metadata; it is not a request for the model to read the image'). 25 GiB of write-only image storage. Also: DeepSeek's platform forces phone binding on first login for some account classes (`platform.deepseek.com/mobile_verification` — 'please bind your phone number upon first login'), while international email+password signup is reported to work. Uncertain, hence medium.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/files_api","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'A single file may be at most 64 MiB'; 'expires_after[seconds] … between 3600 and 2592000. Omit both expires_after fields to keep the file permanently'; supported formats JPEG/PNG/GIF/WebP only"},{"url":"https://www.datastudios.org/post/deepseek-file-uploading-supported-file-types-maximum-size-limits-upload-rules-and-document-readi","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'25 GiB of stored files per user; up to 10,000 stored files'"},{"url":"https://news.cnyes.com/news/id/6584205","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'單個文件最大 64 MiB，每個用戶最多存 25 GiB、10000 個文件 … 不設定有效期則可以一直保留'"},{"url":"https://linux.do/top?page=395","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'DeepSeek 上线 Files API，每用户 25 GiB 永不过期！… 仅支持图片格式，单文件限制 64 MiB' (author @Tealina, 2026-08-21)"},{"url":"https://chat-deep.ai/docs/deepseek-api-file-upload/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Retrieving file information returns metadata; it is not a request for the model to read the image'"},{"url":"https://api.deepseek.com/files","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"PROBE: curl -D - -> 401, Content-Length 31, body 'Authentication Fails (governor)' — live, ELB + CloudFront fronted"}],"verdict":"fails-egress","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if `expires_after` is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days.","extras":{"dead_end":{"failure_class":"retention","why":"25 GiB per user, 10,000 files, 64 MiB per file. Permanent if `expires_after` is omitted; otherwise 1 hour – 30 days.","retry_when":null,"first_recorded":"2026-10-21"}},"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":25,"unit":"GiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":64,"unit":"MiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.extras.dead_end.retry_when","process"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}