Is deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b deprecated?

Q: Is deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-03-20 — 135 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-03-20 — 135 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail. Sources disagree on: context_tokens, input_price_per_mtok, max_output_tokens, output_price_per_mtok.

state=dead sunset=2026-03-20 days_remaining=-135 severity=critical 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=2026-08-02 01:41Z

deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b

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	sambanova/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B	131,072	131,072	$0.7	$1.4	2026-03-20
openrouter	deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b	8,192	8,192	$0.8	$0.8	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
info	deprecated	sambanova/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: retires 2026-03-20 (134 days ago)	2026-08-01
info	deprecated	sambanova/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: deprecation announced for 2026-03-20 (date already passed)	2026-06-26