DeepSeek's current docs now expose a first-party starter trio for curl, Node.js, and Python chat calls, giving V4 Pro users a cleaner official baseline than older alias snippets

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Checked on July 14, 2026: DeepSeek's official docs sitemap currently lists dedicated chat_curl, chat_nodejs, and chat_python sample pages, and all three use the current https://api.deepseek.com endpoint plus deepseek-v4-pro instead of older alias-first snippets.

What we verified on July 14, 2026

DeepSeek's official docs sitemap currently lists three baseline chat sample pages: chat_curl, chat_nodejs, and chat_python.

The curl sample uses the production chat completions endpoint directly: https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions.

The Node.js and Python samples both use the OpenAI SDK shape against the same DeepSeek base URL, which is useful because many community snippets still drift between provider-specific wrappers and older alias examples.

All three starter samples use deepseek-v4-pro as the model name, not deepseek-chat or deepseek-reasoner.

The samples also keep the current thinking-mode pattern visible: high reasoning effort and an explicit thinking payload rather than a legacy minimal example.

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