# deepseek-r1

Calls to the model deepseek-r1 on Azure AI Foundry stopped working on August 13, 2026.

On August 13, 2026, the model deepseek-r1 will be retired across Azure AI Foundry. Any requests targeting model deepseek-r1 after this date will fail. Update your deployments before this deadline to avoid service disruption.

## What to use instead

Move to DeepSeek-V4-Pro, recommended by Microsoft.

- API: Azure AI Foundry (*.services.ai.azure.com)
- Model: deepseek-r1
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: August 13, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model deepseek-r1`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule)
- Verified: October 29, 2026, against Azure AI Foundry's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/azure-ai-foundry/deepseek-r1/

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent