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Azure AI Foundry deepseek-v4-flash model retirement

Stops workingin 479 days

On February 20, 2028, the model deepseek-v4-flash will be retired. Calls targeting model deepseek-v4-flash will fail after this date. This model retirement affects all requests made to this model on the platform.

What to use instead of deepseek-v4-flash

The model deepseek-v4-flash-0731 is named first, but it stops working on December 3, 2026. No replacement that holds is named yet.

Facts

API
Azure AI Foundry *.services.ai.azure.com
Model
deepseek-v4-flash
Kind
Model retirement
Takes effect
February 20, 2028
Calls after that day
Fail
Source
Deprecations page
Last updated
Verified
, against Azure AI Foundry's own pages

Questions

When does deepseek-v4-flash shut down?

Calls to the model deepseek-v4-flash on Azure AI Foundry stop working on February 20, 2028.

What happens to calls after February 20, 2028?

They fail from that day.

How do I find the calls this hits in my code?

Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.

deepseek-v4-flash on other APIs 6

  1. Nebius deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flashModel retirement Stopped working
  2. Novita AI deepseek/deepseek-v4-flashModel retirement Stopped working
  3. No date OpenCode deepseek-v4-flashModel retirement Deprecated, no date
  4. No date Alibaba Model Studio deepseek-v4-flashModel retirement Deprecated, no date
  5. No date DeepSeek deepseek-v4-flashModel retirement Deprecated, no date
  6. No date Tinfoil deepseek-v4-flashModel retirement Deprecated, no date

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