A recent Bloomberg report shows that Harness, DeepSeek's open-source agent application framework, has stood out since launch. In just under three months, the daily active users (DAU) of its official API have surged to 1.54 million. This marks a significant increase from the 7-day average of 271K after the desktop version was officially launched on September 30.

Staggering Compute Consumption: Long-Running Agent Tasks Become a "Cost Monster"

With explosive DAU growth, Harness's resource consumption at the compute level has also drawn intense industry attention.

Data shows that these 1.54 million daily active users consume about 92T (trillion) tokens per day on the platform, with each user consuming an average of about 60 million tokens per day. Industry analysts note that this massive figure not only reshapes market perceptions but also serves as the most direct public signal to date: compared with traditional chatbots, complex agent tasks that need to run continuously for long periods carry far greater compute and computational resource costs.

Explosive Plugin Ecosystem: 35,000 Custom Plugins and Future Commercialization Plans

In terms of architecture design, Harness adopts an extremely open plugin-based mechanism, treating every function in the system as a plugin. Even core built-in features can be replaced by users themselves.

As of now, a vast community of developers and users has built about 35,000 custom plugins in this ecosystem. DeepSeek officially revealed that among all active users, about 60% have personally built at least one plugin. However, the company also candidly acknowledged that the overall quality of these community-made plugins is currently uneven.

To further strengthen its ecosystem moat, DeepSeek plans to launch an official plugin marketplace and simultaneously start a creator incentive program, supporting the ecosystem through multiple measures such as token grants, technical support, and traffic promotion. As these tools and incentive policies are rolled out one after another, if it can continue to retain core users, DeepSeek will move beyond its model pricing advantage and formally compete head-on with overseas giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic in terms of ecosystem richness.