In this video, I’ll show you how to connect DeepSeek’s newest reasoning model, DeepSeek R1, directly in n8n—no OpenRouter required! Because this model isn’t built for tool/function calling, we want to use DeepSeek R1 as a planning agent. It’s job is to take the human request, and think through the steps to achieve the result. It will then feed this plan of action into a tools agent that can use any other model like GPT 4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet.