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title: "What should I expect from DeepSeek’s reasoning_content field in streaming?"  
description: "What should I expect from DeepSeek’s reasoning_content field in streaming?"  
author: "María Fernanda Martínez"  
published: 2026-10-15  
updated: 2026-10-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162377/what-should-i-expect-from-deepseek-s-reasoning-content-field-in-streaming  
category: "LLM API Integration"  
tags: ["DeepSeek", "API Integration", "streaming"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What should I expect from DeepSeek’s reasoning_content field in streaming?

I’m connecting to DeepSeek through an OpenAI-compatible SDK and trying to understand how its `reasoning_content` field behaves during streamed responses. Should I expect it to arrive separately from the user-facing answer, and does that behavior vary between streaming and non-streaming requests?

If you’ve integrated this into an application, I’d appreciate notes on which response fields you read and any compatibility surprises you ran into.


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