It looks like their API is OpenAI compatible but their docs say that they don’t support the `reasoning_effort` parameter yet.
> max_tokens:The maximum length of the final response after the CoT output is completed, defaulting to 4K, with a maximum of 8K. Note that the CoT output can reach up to 32K tokens, and the parameter to control the CoT length (reasoning_effort) will be available soon. [1]
> max_tokens:The maximum length of the final response after the CoT output is completed, defaulting to 4K, with a maximum of 8K. Note that the CoT output can reach up to 32K tokens, and the parameter to control the CoT length (reasoning_effort) will be available soon. [1]
[1] https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/reasoning_model