# deepseek-laravel: a thin Laravel binding for the Deepseek PHP client

> The package does one job: resolve a DeepSeekClient out of Laravel's container and read the API key from your .env. Here is what that buys you, what it does not, and the questions the README leaves open.

**deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel** — Laravel wrapper for Deepseek PHP client, to seamless deepseek API integration with laravel applications.

- Repository: https://github.com/deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel
- Stars: 401 · Forks: 69
- Language: PHP
- License: MIT
- Published: 2026-09-14 · Updated: 2026-09-14 · Language: en
- Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/deepseek-php-deepseek-laravel

## What deepseek-laravel actually removes from your code

Any Laravel app can call DeepSeek over HTTP with the framework's own client. What this package removes is the wiring around that call: reading the key from the environment, holding default model and sampling settings, and handing you a client object through the container. The README describes it as a "Laravel wrapper for Deepseek PHP client", so the actual protocol work lives in deepseek-php/deepseek-php-client and this repository is the Laravel-facing layer. That distinction matters when you are deciding whether to adopt it. You are not choosing a new API client, you are choosing a service provider and a config file that sit in front of one. The audience is narrow and specific: PHP teams already on Laravel who want DeepSeek calls to look like any other injected dependency, with the key in .env next to the database credentials. If you are writing a plain PHP script, a Symfony app or a queue worker outside Laravel, the wrapper adds a dependency without adding anything you can use.

## The mechanism: a container binding and a published config file

The usage examples show the shape of the integration. You resolve DeepSeekClient from the application container, call query() with a prompt, optionally chain more query() calls with a role, then call run() to send the request. The README's basic example passes only a prompt. The advanced example shows query('...', 'system') followed by query('...', 'user'), then withModel("deepseek-chat") and setTemperature(1.5) before run(). So the builder accumulates messages and settings, and the network call happens at run(). The README states that in easy mode the client "will take defaults for all configs" and links to DefaultConfigs.php in the PHP client repository, which means the wrapper itself does not define those defaults. Configuration reaches the client through the published config file, which is why the install step publishes it rather than relying on code alone. The repository layout is consistent with a standard Laravel package: a src/ directory for the provider and binding, a config/ directory for the publishable file, and a tests/ directory. The README's Testing section says "Tests will come soon", so the test coverage you can inspect is whatever is in that directory at the tag you install, not what the documentation promises.

## Installing deepseek-laravel and making a first call

Installation is a single Composer command. The README gives it as:

```bash
composer require deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel
```

Laravel package discovery should register the service provider without an entry in config/app.php, though the README does not state this explicitly; check composer.json for the extra.laravel section if the binding is not available after install. Next, publish the configuration file:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=deepseek
```

That writes the package config into your application's config directory. Then add the key to .env, using the variable name exactly as the README gives it:

```php
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="your_api_key"
```

With that in place, the smallest working call resolves the client and runs one prompt:

```php
use DeepSeekClient;

$deepseek = app(DeepSeekClient::class);
$response = $deepseek->query('Hello deepseek, I am Laravel Framework , how are you Today ^_^ ?')->run();
print_r("deepseek API response : " . $response);
```

You should see the model's reply printed. If you get an authentication error instead, the published config is not picking up DEEPSEEK_API_KEY, which usually means the config cache is stale; run php artisan config:clear and try again.

## Chaining messages, model choice and temperature

The advanced example is where the wrapper earns its place, because it shows the fluent surface rather than a single string. You can stack a system message and a user message on one call, pick the model by name, and set the sampling temperature before the request fires:

```php
use DeepSeekClient;

$deepseek = app(DeepSeekClient::class);

$response = $deepseek
    ->query('Hello deepseek, how are you ?', 'system')
    ->query('Hello deepseek, my name is PHP ', 'user')
    ->withModel("deepseek-chat")
    ->setTemperature(1.5)
    ->run();
```

The model identifier in the README is "deepseek-chat". The repository topics also list deepseek-coder, deepseek-r1 and deepseek-r1-zero, but the README itself only demonstrates deepseek-chat, so treat the others as model names you would pass to withModel() after confirming they are current in DeepSeek's own API documentation. The temperature of 1.5 in the example is high for most production prompts; it is there to show the setter works, not as a recommended value. Note that run() is what performs the call, so anything you chain after run() in the same expression is a separate request. The README does not show a way to reuse a configured client across calls, so if you want shared settings across many prompts, verify in src/ whether the builder resets after run().

## Where this wrapper stops: no streaming, no tools, no tests

The README documents exactly two usage patterns: a single query and a chained query with model and temperature settings. It does not document streaming responses, function or tool calling, JSON mode, embeddings, or file uploads. If your feature depends on token-by-token output in a chat interface, this package as documented will not give it to you, and you would be looking at the underlying deepseek-php-client or a direct HTTP call instead. The Testing section is honest but unhelpful: "Tests will come soon". That means you cannot lean on a published suite to tell you how the package behaves at the edges, and the repository's tests/ directory is the only thing you can inspect. There is also no documented retry policy, timeout configuration or error type. The README does not mention rollback or migration steps between v2.0.0, v2.0.1 and v2.0.2, so if you pin a version, read CHANGELOG.md in the repository rather than assuming the patch releases are drop-in. Finally, the package is Laravel-only by construction. In a non-Laravel PHP codebase the container binding is dead weight, and you should use the PHP client directly.

## How it compares to calling the API from Laravel yourself

The real alternative is not another package; it is Laravel's own HTTP client plus a small service class of your own. That approach costs you maybe forty lines: a config entry, a wrapper method that posts to the DeepSeek endpoint with the key from config, and error handling you control. What you gain is full access to whatever the API supports today, including streaming and tool calls, without waiting for a wrapper to expose them. What you lose is the fluent query()/run() surface and the published config tag, which are genuinely pleasant for simple prompt-in, text-out features. The deepseek-php-client repository is the other option: it is the layer this package wraps, so using it directly in Laravel means one less dependency and the same API surface, at the cost of registering the binding yourself. If your team already standardises on wrapper packages for third-party services, deepseek-laravel fits that pattern. If you have exactly one DeepSeek integration and it is unusual, the wrapper is an extra indirection you will end up fighting.

## Licence, maintenance and the cost of upgrading

The package is MIT licensed, and the README points to LICENSE.md in the repository. MIT is permissive: you can use it commercially, modify it and ship it inside a closed product, provided the copyright notice and licence text travel with it. That is a description of the licence terms, not legal advice; if your organisation has a policy on third-party dependencies, route it through the normal review. On maintenance, the last push to the default branch was on 2026-05-21, and the most recent release listed is v2.0.2 from 2025-08-14. The repository is not archived. The upgrade surface is small because the package is small: the moving parts are the service provider, the config file and the version constraint on deepseek-php/deepseek-php-client in composer.json. The practical cost of upgrading is re-publishing or diffing the config file after a minor release, and re-checking the PHP client's DefaultConfigs.php when defaults change upstream, since the wrapper delegates those values. Budget for reading CHANGELOG.md on each release rather than assuming semantic versioning covers behavioural changes in defaults.

## Conclusion

Adopt deepseek-laravel if you already run Laravel and want DeepSeek calls behind the app(DeepSeekClient::class) binding instead of hand-rolling an HTTP client. Skip it if you need streaming, tool calls or a UI, since the README documents none of them, or if you are not on Laravel at all. Before committing, open src/ and config/ in the repository at tag v2.0.2 to confirm the service provider binding and the config keys, because the README does not spell them out and the tests directory is described as coming soon.

## FAQ

### How do I install deepseek-laravel in a Laravel app?

Run composer require deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel, then php artisan vendor:publish --tag=deepseek to write the config file, and add DEEPSEEK_API_KEY to your .env with your key as the value.

### Which model name does deepseek-laravel use by default?

The README's advanced example passes "deepseek-chat" to withModel(), and the basic example takes package defaults, which the README says come from DefaultConfigs.php in the deepseek-php-client repository rather than from this package.

### Does deepseek-laravel support streaming responses?

The README documents only query() and run() with model and temperature settings, and does not mention streaming, so there is no documented streaming path in this package.

### Can I use deepseek-laravel outside of Laravel?

The package is built as a Laravel wrapper around the Deepseek PHP client, and its documented usage resolves DeepSeekClient from the Laravel container, so a non-Laravel PHP project would use the underlying deepseek-php-client instead.

## Sources

- [deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel on GitHub](https://github.com/deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel)
- [Issues](https://github.com/deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel/issues)
- [License: MIT](https://github.com/deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel/blob/master/LICENSE)
- [README](https://github.com/deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel/blob/master/README.md)
- [Releases](https://github.com/deepseek-php/deepseek-laravel/releases)

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