# **Deepseek Guardrails** Use Portkey to enforce structured inputs, safe outputs, and usage policies across all Deepseek requests. Configure verdict actions like async checks, request denial, and feedback logging, according to your enforcement needs. ### **Deepseek Guardrails** DeepSeek provides powerful open-weight models optimized for reasoning, coding, and general-purpose tasks. But bringing them into production safely requires more than just model performance. With Portkey, you can apply guardrails to every DeepSeek request, ensuring safety, compliance, and consistency without modifying your application code. DeepSeek’s lineup includes models like **DeepSeek-VL**, **DeepSeek-Coder**, and the newly released **DeepSeek-LLM**, used across tasks like chat, RAG, code generation, and multimodal inference. Whether you're calling DeepSeek APIs or hosting the models yourself, Portkey lets you apply guardrails, monitor usage, and route requests across providers with ease. **With Portkey, you can:** - Protect your AI stack from security threats with built-in guardrails - Route requests with precision and zero latency based on guardrail checks - View guardrails verdicts, latency, and pass/fail status for every check in real time. - Enforce org-wide AI safety policies across all your teams, workspaces and models. - Integrate existing guardrail infrastructure through simple webhook calls - Secure vector embedding requests Portkey supports all Deepseek models out of the box and can be deployed in hours, not weeks, making it the easiest way to bring enterprise-grade control to your AI stack. ### Guardrail checks you can apply to Deepseek Portkey offers both deterministic and LLM-powered guardrails that work seamlessly with Deepseek's APIs. You can apply these checks to inputs, outputs, or both. ##### Input guardrails ###### Regex Match Basic Enforce patterns on input prompts ###### Sentence / Word / Character Count Basic Control verbosity ###### Lowercase Detection Basic Control verbosity ###### Ends With Basic Validate specific prompt endings ###### Webhook Basic Enforce custom business logic ###### JWT Token Validator Basic Verify token authenticity ###### Model Whitelist Basic Allow only approved models per route ###### Moderate Content Pro Block unsafe or harmful prompts ###### Check Language Pro Enforce language constraints ###### Detect PII Pro Prevent sensitive info in prompts ###### Detect Gibberish Pro Block incoherent or low-quality input ##### Output guardrails ###### Regex / Sentence / Word / Character Count Basic Ensure required words or phrases ###### JSON Schema / JSON Keys Basic Ensure required words or phrases ###### Valid URLs Basic Validate links in responses ###### Contains Code Basic Detect code in specific formats ###### Webhook Basic Post-process or validate output ###### Detect PII / Detect Gibberish Basic Ensure content meets criteria ### How to add guardrails to Deepseek with Portkey Adding Portkey Guardrails in production is just a 4-step process: ##### 1 Create Guardrail Checks ##### 2 Create Guardrail Actions ##### 3 Enable Guardrail through Configs ##### 4 Attach the Config to a Request ### Guardrail action settings ###### Async (TRUE) Run guardrails in parallel to the request. → No added latency. Best for logging-only scenarios. ###### Deny Request (TRUE) Block the request or response if any guardrail fails. → Use when violations must stop execution. ## Frequently Asked Questions ###### Do guardrails add latency to requests? ###### Can I block a request if a guardrail fails? ###### What happens if I don’t want to block, just observe? ###### What’s the difference between basic and pro guardrails? ### **Safeguard your** Deepseek **requests now.** Whether you're running production workloads, or scaling across teams, Portkey’s guardrails give you control without compromise.