deepseek-chat

Model at DeepSeek

186th of 325 on GPQA Diamond

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The basics

As of Nov 1

Status: Retired Jul 24, 2026

Updates

Apr 24

Retiring

deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner to be retired July 24

DeepSeek announced that the deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner model names would be fully retired after July 24, 2026, 15:59 UTC. Until then they route to deepseek-v4-flash.

Action needed:: Switch to deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek-v4-pro before July 24, 2026.

Full changelog, by month

Where it works

Place	Type	Price per 1M tokens, in / out	Uptime
DeepInfra	API host	$0.26 / $0.71	100%
StreamLake	API host	$0.26 / $1.03	99.72%

Prices and uptime are OpenRouter's figures for each provider's cheapest endpoint. Uptime covers the last 24 hours.

Benchmarks

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