DeepSeek Harness reaches 1.54M daily users and plans an official plugin marketplace

TechNode reports DeepSeek's first detailed usage figures for Harness, its agent platform:

- 1.54 million daily active users as of November 4.

- About 92 trillion tokens consumed per day.

- 5.48 million monthly users through official API channels.

- Roughly 35,000 third-party plugins created by the community.

Next, DeepSeek plans an official plugin marketplace and a creator program that pays developers in tokens and offers technical support. Plugin creation already became easier with Creator Mode, introduced earlier this month, which lets developers generate custom UI components and tools from natural-language prompts. Paying creators in tokens rather than cash ties their rewards directly to platform usage.

The economics favor DeepSeek. Production traffic runs on V4.1 Flash, which leads open-weight models on BenchLM with a score of 65.2 and is seeing strong paid usage on OpenRouter. Cheap inference makes a token-subsidized creator economy affordable in a way it would not be for labs with higher serving costs.

Harness now competes with OpenAI's GPT store, Anthropic's MCP ecosystem and Meta's Muse agents for developer attention. Open questions:

- How DeepSeek will vet 35,000 plugins, given that MCP servers elsewhere are drawing security scrutiny.

- Whether Western developers will build for a Chinese platform.

- When V4.1 Pro, and the unannounced V5, arrive.