Is deepseek-r1-0528 deprecated?

Q: Is deepseek-r1-0528 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: max_output_tokens.

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=max_output_tokens checked=2026-09-30 15:40Z

deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528

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	deepinfra/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528	163,840	163,840	$0.5	$2.15	—
openrouter	deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528	163,840	32,768	$0.5	$2.15	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
medium	removed	[one catalog only — litellm, openrouter still list it] wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail	2026-09-23
low	modified	openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528: context_tokens raised 65,336 to 163,840	2026-09-18
low	modified	openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528: max_output_tokens raised 8,192 to 32,768	2026-09-18
low	modified	openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528: capabilities gained response_schema	2026-09-18
info	repriced	openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528: cache_read_price_per_mtok n/a to $0.35/Mtok	2026-09-18
info	deprecated	wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528: deprecation announced for 2026-03-04 (date already passed)	2026-09-17
info	deprecated	wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528: retires 2026-03-04 (197 days ago)	2026-09-17
low	added	new model together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 (163,840 ctx)	2026-09-13
low	modified	wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528: capabilities gained reasoning	2026-09-11
info	repriced	wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528: input_price_per_mtok $135,000.00/Mtok to $1.35/Mtok	2026-09-06
info	repriced	wandb/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528: output_price_per_mtok $540,000.00/Mtok to $5.40/Mtok	2026-09-06