DeepSeek-R1 Prompts: One Plain Instruction Works Best

On frontier reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1, manual step-by-step instructions can actively hurt performance by conflicting with the model's own deliberation; write a clear, single-instruction plain-language brief instead.

User Prompt: Design a tiered API rate-limiting and burst-credit pricing model for an enterprise payment gateway that prevents noisy-neighbor saturation while maximizing throughput for high-margin merchants.