Is deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b deprecated?

Q: Is deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2025-08-28 — 398 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2025-08-28 — 398 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

state=dead sunset=2025-08-28 days_remaining=-398 severity=critical sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-09-30 15:40Z

deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b

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	together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B	131,072	—	$0.18	$0.18	2025-08-28

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
info	deprecated	together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B: deprecation announced for 2025-08-28 (date already passed)	2026-09-25
low	added	new model together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B (131,072 ctx)	2026-09-24
medium	removed	[one catalog only — litellm still list it] together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail	2026-09-23
info	deprecated	together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B: deprecation announced for 2025-08-28 (date already passed)	2026-09-16
info	deprecated	together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B: retires 2025-08-28 (384 days ago)	2026-09-16
low	added	new model together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B	2026-09-15