Is deepseek-chat deprecated?

Q: Is deepseek-chat deprecated?

No — still supported. Listed by litellm, openrouter. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model.

NOT DEPRECATED

Listed by litellm, openrouter. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model. Sources disagree on: context_tokens, input_price_per_mtok, max_output_tokens, output_price_per_mtok.

state=alive sunset=none days_remaining=n/a severity=low sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=context_tokens,input_price_per_mtok,max_output_tokens,output_price_per_mtok checked=2026-09-17 03:04Z

deepseek/deepseek-chat

Vendor: deepseek. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	deepseek-chat	131,072	8,192	$0.28	$0.42	—
openrouter	deepseek/deepseek-chat	163,840	16,000	$0.2574	$1.0287	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	repriced	openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat: output_price_per_mtok $0.89/Mtok to $1.03/Mtok	2026-09-17
info	repriced	openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat: input_price_per_mtok $0.32/Mtok to $0.26/Mtok	2026-09-17
high	modified	deepseek/deepseek-chat: max_output_tokens cut 16,384 to 16,000	2026-09-10
low	repriced	deepseek/deepseek-chat: output_price_per_mtok $0.89/Mtok to $1.03/Mtok	2026-09-10
info	repriced	deepseek/deepseek-chat: input_price_per_mtok $0.32/Mtok to $0.26/Mtok	2026-09-10
medium	repriced	openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat: input_price_per_mtok $0.14/Mtok to $0.32/Mtok	2026-09-06
medium	repriced	openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-chat: output_price_per_mtok $0.28/Mtok to $0.89/Mtok	2026-09-06
low	modified	deepseek/deepseek-chat: max_output_tokens raised 16,000 to 16,384	2026-09-03
low	repriced	deepseek/deepseek-chat: input_price_per_mtok $0.26/Mtok to $0.32/Mtok	2026-09-03
info	repriced	deepseek/deepseek-chat: output_price_per_mtok $1.03/Mtok to $0.89/Mtok	2026-09-03