Is phi-3-small-8k-instruct deprecated?

Q: Is phi-3-small-8k-instruct deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2025-08-30 — 427 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2025-08-30 — 427 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

state=dead sunset=2025-08-30 days_remaining=-427 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

microsoft/phi-3-small-8k-instruct

Vendor: microsoft. 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	azure_ai/Phi-3-small-8k-instruct	8,192	4,096	$0.15	$0.6	2025-08-30

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
info	deprecated	azure_ai/Phi-3-small-8k-instruct: deprecation announced for 2025-08-30 (date already passed)	2026-10-02
info	deprecated	azure_ai/Phi-3-small-8k-instruct: retires 2025-08-30 (398 days ago)	2026-10-02