No, the DeepSeek chat app and website cannot generate images; they can read and analyze images you upload, but their replies are text.
As of November 13, 2026, DeepSeek’s official change log describes the app experience as web search, file input, URL reading and voice interaction, and lists no image generation feature. Its current model, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (released September 10, 2026), has native multimodal visual understanding, so you can upload a photo, chart or screenshot and ask questions about it. The API offers that model as deepseek-flash, and its pricing page lists no image generation product.
If you want images from DeepSeek, use Janus-Pro instead. DeepSeek released this separate open model on January 27, 2025, in 1B and 7B sizes, and its GitHub repository includes text-to-image code and an online demo on Hugging Face. You can also run it locally.
Related: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: Power-User Guide to the 1017 Update, API and Pricing, Is DeepSeek free? and Can Perplexity generate images?
Source: DeepSeek API Docs, Change Log and DeepSeek, Janus-Series repository on GitHub
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