How to (hopefully) use deepseek

To use deepseek (at least the way I did it) 1. Go to openrouter.ai and make an account. 2. After account has been made, click on settings the scroll down to Default Model and select Deepseek:R1 (free) 3. Go to keys and create an Api key. Don't forget to save it because you can never see it again. 4. Go to janitor and find a proxy compatible bot 5. Click on the api settings and select proxy, then select custom. 6. For Model, type in deepseek/deepseek-r1:free (all lowercase) 7. For the Url, type in this link exactly https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions (do not click on anything else except for the Api key) 8. Click on the Api key and paste the key you (hopefully) saved from step 3 9. Put in a custom prompt if you want. (Jailbreak) 10. Click save settings. A pop up will ask if you want to rest the temperature back to normal, click yes. 11. Go to generation settings and change the temp and tokens (I have mine at 1.1 and 0) 12. Completely close all janitor ai tabs then reopen and start chatting.

You might have to refresh the page a few times but this is exactly what I did and it worked. I got it from another redditer. Hopefully y'all dummies can follow this. /j. I haven't figured out how to use a paid model yet but when I do, I'll post another guide. Anyways, have fun chatting!

Edit: PSA- Please don't harass bot creaters to make their bots proxy compatible. It's their choice. An easy way to tell if a bot is proxy compatible is to see if the character definition is visible, then it's proxy compatible. If the definition is hidden, it has a high chance of not being proxy compatible.

Edit 2: Deepseek does log the messages you send and the messages the bot sends to improve the LLM. The information is anonymous. You are able to change your IP address by unplugging your router for about five minutes, then you should get a new one. My brutally honest answer is that nothing is private on the web and if someone wants to find something, they will. As long as you aren't telling the bot your credit card info, I doubt anything could be used again you. (Besides the fact that you're a whore or man whore for some ai /j) My dms are open so chat with me if you have problems or post it in the comments.

Edit 3: I'd like to thank u/PikaPikaGamer and u/kawau-tui for also making a guide on how to use deepseek. (Took me awhile to find the op's, sorry.) I'd also like to thank this post for figuring out that deepseek does have a daily token limt. Finally, I'd like to thank u/EntertainmentFuture5 for showing me how to use a paid model. It's basically the same steps as above but for step 2, you select the paid model you'd like to use. You also omit step 6 because the API key already knows what model you're using. (Or that's my understanding.) Hopefully, this is my last edit.

Edit 4: Hopefully this is my last edit. (Famous last words.) I have reached my daily limt and I tried out two other paid API's but they didn't hit the same as the free version of deepseek. So I recommend just waiting until the next day to chat again. (Just my opinion.)