DeepSeek's Open-Source Agent Harness Tops 1.54M Daily Users
DeepSeek's open-source agent app Harness reached 1.54 million daily official API users less than three months after launch, up from a seven-day average of 271K on September 30. These users burn roughly 92 trillion tokens per day, about 60 million each, an early public signal that long-running agent tasks consume far more compute than chatbots. Harness treats everything as a plugin, with about 35,000 user-built plugins so far, and DeepSeek plans an official plugin marketplace plus a creator program.
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Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-11-08 18
Bloomberg: DeepSeek’s open-source agent app Harness hit 1.54M daily users less than 3 months after launch.
The count covers only official API users and rose from a 7-day average of 271K on September 30, just after a desktop version shipped.
Those users burn about 92T tokens a day, roughly 60M each, an early public sign that hours-long agent runs consume far more compute than chatbots.
Harness treats everything as a plugin, so even built-in features can be replaced, and users have built about 35,000 so far.
DeepSeek says 60% of users have made at least one, though it concedes their quality varies widely.
Next comes an official plugin marketplace plus a creator program offering token grants, technical help and promotion, with no further details yet.
If those tools keep users loyal, DeepSeek gains a way to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on ecosystem breadth as well as model price.
