Is deepseek-reasoner deprecated?

Q: Is deepseek-reasoner deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-07-24 — 99 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-07-24 — 99 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

state=dead sunset=2026-07-24 days_remaining=-99 severity=critical sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-10-31 05:09Z

deepseek/deepseek-reasoner

Vendor: deepseek. Tracked by 1 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-reasoner	131,072	65,536	$0.28	$0.42	2026-07-24

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	added	new model inferenceapis/deepseek-reasoner (1,048,576 ctx)	2026-10-15
info	deprecated	deepseek-reasoner: deprecation announced for 2026-07-24 (date already passed)	2026-10-01
info	deprecated	deepseek/deepseek-reasoner: deprecation announced for 2026-07-24 (date already passed)	2026-10-01
info	deprecated	deepseek-reasoner: retires 2026-07-24 (69 days ago)	2026-10-01
info	deprecated	deepseek/deepseek-reasoner: retires 2026-07-24 (69 days ago)	2026-10-01