diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1ef3fe8..74c4229 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Create a `.env` file and add OpenCommit config variables there like this:
 
 ```env
 ...
-OCO_AI_PROVIDER=<openai (default), anthropic, azure, ollama, gemini, flowise>
+OCO_AI_PROVIDER=<openai (default), anthropic, azure, ollama, gemini, flowise, deepseek>
 OCO_API_KEY=<your OpenAI API token> // or other LLM provider API token
 OCO_API_URL=<may be used to set proxy path to OpenAI api>
 OCO_TOKENS_MAX_INPUT=<max model token limit (default: 4096)>
diff --git a/src/commands/config.ts b/src/commands/config.ts
index 5381a8d..ea7e370 100644
--- a/src/commands/config.ts
+++ b/src/commands/config.ts
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ export const MODEL_LIST = {
     'mistral-embed',
     'mistral-moderation-2411',
     'mistral-moderation-latest',
+  ],
+  deepseek : [
+	  'deepseek-chat',
+	  'deepseek-reasoner',
   ]
 };
 
@@ -145,6 +149,8 @@ const getDefaultModel = (provider: string | undefined): string => {
       return MODEL_LIST.groq[0];
     case 'mistral':
       return MODEL_LIST.mistral[0];
+    case 'deepseek':
+	return MODEL_LIST.deepseek[0];
     default:
       return MODEL_LIST.openai[0];
   }
@@ -184,7 +190,7 @@ export const configValidators = {
     validateConfig(
       'OCO_API_KEY',
       value,
-      'You need to provide the OCO_API_KEY when OCO_AI_PROVIDER set to "openai" (default) or "ollama" or "mlx" or "azure" or "gemini" or "flowise" or "anthropic". Run `oco config set OCO_API_KEY=your_key OCO_AI_PROVIDER=openai`'
+      'You need to provide the OCO_API_KEY when OCO_AI_PROVIDER set to "openai" (default) or "ollama" or "mlx" or "azure" or "gemini" or "flowise" or "anthropic" or "deepseek". Run `oco config set OCO_API_KEY=your_key OCO_AI_PROVIDER=openai`'
     );
 
     return value;
@@ -307,9 +313,10 @@ export const configValidators = {
         'azure',
         'test',
         'flowise',
-        'groq'
+        'groq',
+	'deepseek'
       ].includes(value) || value.startsWith('ollama'),
-      `${value} is not supported yet, use 'ollama', 'mlx', 'anthropic', 'azure', 'gemini', 'flowise', 'mistral' or 'openai' (default)`
+      `${value} is not supported yet, use 'ollama', 'mlx', 'anthropic', 'azure', 'gemini', 'flowise', 'mistral', 'deepseek' or 'openai' (default)`
     );
 
     return value;
@@ -356,7 +363,8 @@ export enum OCO_AI_PROVIDER_ENUM {
   FLOWISE = 'flowise',
   GROQ = 'groq',
   MISTRAL = 'mistral',
-  MLX = 'mlx'
+  MLX = 'mlx',
+  DEEPSEEK = 'deepseek'
 }
 
 export type ConfigType = {
diff --git a/src/engine/deepseek.ts b/src/engine/deepseek.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9424a9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/engine/deepseek.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import axios from 'axios';
+import { OpenAI } from 'openai';
+import { GenerateCommitMessageErrorEnum } from '../generateCommitMessageFromGitDiff';
+import { tokenCount } from '../utils/tokenCount';
+import { OpenAiEngine, OpenAiConfig } from './openAI';
+
+export interface DeepseekConfig extends OpenAiConfig {}
+
+export class DeepseekEngine extends OpenAiEngine {
+  constructor(config: DeepseekConfig) {
+    // Call OpenAIEngine constructor with forced Deepseek baseURL
+    super({
+      ...config,
+      baseURL: 'https://api.deepseek.com/v1'
+    });
+  }
+
+  // Identical method from OpenAiEngine, re-implemented here
+  public generateCommitMessage = async (
+    messages: Array<OpenAI.Chat.Completions.ChatCompletionMessageParam>
+  ): Promise<string | null> => {
+    const params = {
+      model: this.config.model,
+      messages,
+      temperature: 0,
+      top_p: 0.1,
+      max_tokens: this.config.maxTokensOutput
+    };
+
+    try {
+      const REQUEST_TOKENS = messages
+        .map((msg) => tokenCount(msg.content as string) + 4)
+        .reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
+
+      if (
+        REQUEST_TOKENS >
+        this.config.maxTokensInput - this.config.maxTokensOutput
+      )
+        throw new Error(GenerateCommitMessageErrorEnum.tooMuchTokens);
+
+      const completion = await this.client.chat.completions.create(params);
+
+      const message = completion.choices[0].message;
+
+      return message?.content;
+    } catch (error) {
+      const err = error as Error;
+      if (
+        axios.isAxiosError<{ error?: { message: string } }>(error) &&
+        error.response?.status === 401
+      ) {
+        const openAiError = error.response.data.error;
+
+        if (openAiError) throw new Error(openAiError.message);
+      }
+
+      throw err;
+    }
+  };
+}
diff --git a/src/utils/engine.ts b/src/utils/engine.ts
index 481a9f9..3137a05 100644
--- a/src/utils/engine.ts
+++ b/src/utils/engine.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { MistralAiEngine } from '../engine/mistral';
 import { TestAi, TestMockType } from '../engine/testAi';
 import { GroqEngine } from '../engine/groq';
 import { MLXEngine } from '../engine/mlx';
+import { DeepseekEngine } from '../engine/deepseek';
 
 export function getEngine(): AiEngine {
   const config = getConfig();
@@ -51,6 +52,9 @@ export function getEngine(): AiEngine {
     case OCO_AI_PROVIDER_ENUM.MLX:
       return new MLXEngine(DEFAULT_CONFIG);
 
+    case OCO_AI_PROVIDER_ENUM.DEEPSEEK:
+      return new DeepseekEngine(DEFAULT_CONFIG);
+
     default:
       return new OpenAiEngine(DEFAULT_CONFIG);
   }