Deepseek

At a glance

What Deepseek does

Tool use, Streaming, Structured output, Self-hostable

Best for

Cheap high-quality coding, bulk classification, self-host for privacy

Works well with

Conflicts & caveats

• Google Antigravity is built around Gemini 3 Pro; Claude and recent GPT-5 models also work, but Deepseek is not in the supported model list.
• Kiro's spec mode is tuned for Claude models — Deepseek may work but spec-driven flows are best with Claude.
• OpenAI Codex (VS Code) is tied to OpenAI's GPT-5.1 Codex family — Deepseek is not selectable inside this integration.
• Gemini CLI is locked to Google Gemini models — your LLM is Deepseek.
• Privacy conflict: Self-hosted Deepseek sends code to cloud @codebase (Cursor). Use local context (Continue indexing, ChromaDB, LanceDB, pgvector, Vespa self-hosted) for true privacy.
• Claude Code only works with Claude models — your LLM is Deepseek.
• Devin uses Cognition's proprietary model internally — your selected Deepseek will be ignored.
• OpenAI Codex (Cloud) runs GPT-5.1 Codex internally — your selected Deepseek will be ignored.
• Jules runs Gemini models internally — your selected Deepseek will be ignored.
• The Claude Code SDK is tuned for Claude models — Deepseek may work via the model adapter but loses Claude-specific features (thinking, prompt caching, sub-agents).
• Lovable uses a fixed internal model — your selected Deepseek will be ignored.
• Replit Agent 3 uses its own model selection internally — your selected Deepseek will be ignored.