The DeepSeek Harness team gave its usage figures in an update published on the evening of 5 November. Pandaily reported the figures, citing IT Home and MyDrivers. Cointime, Lookonchain and Gate.com, which cites Tech in Asia, have published the same figures. All the sources rely on DeepSeek’s own numbers.

The figure of 1.54 million refers to 4 November. It counts only people who use Harness through DeepSeek’s official API. These users consume about 92 trillion tokens a day in total, the team said.

DeepSeek Harness is an open-source harness: a program that steers an agent, giving the model tools and running its steps. Pandaily said its design is often summed up by the principle ‘everything is a plugin’. Users can swap and combine plugins, which make up the models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, storage, loops, scheduling and user interface.

DeepSeek released Harness 0.1, the first version, on 13 August and the desktop version on 29 September. MyDrivers reported that daily users stood at about 271,000 on 30 September, which means the number grew more than fivefold in a little over a month. Gate.com, citing Tech in Asia, presents the same starting figure as DeepSeek data and puts the growth at 468 per cent.

The team said developers have built about 35,000 third-party plugins since launch. About 60 per cent of active users have built or installed at least one plugin.

Next, the team plans to improve the stability and compatibility of the plugin API, strengthen plugin security mechanisms and build an official plugin marketplace. The marketplace would let authors publish plugins more easily and help users find the ones they need. Until now, developers have relied on community-maintained directories and repositories, Pandaily reported.

The team is also preparing a support programme for plugin authors that would offer token incentives, technical exchanges and visibility for their work. Community needs and feedback will shape the details, the team said. It gave no start date for the marketplace or the programme.

DeepSeek also invited start-ups and other companies to discuss partnerships and to bring their products, services and expertise to Harness as plugins.