Is Microsoft Azure AI Foundry DeepSeek-R1 deprecated?
No longer available. Microsoft Azure AI Foundry shut DeepSeek-R1 down on 2026-08-13 — calls to it fail.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what DeepSeek-R1 takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
Specifications
- Input price
- unknown
- Output price
- unknown
- Price band
- unknown
- Context window
- unknown
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- MIT License
- Model maker
- DeepSeek
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
Lifecycle
- Released unknown
- Deprecated not announced Microsoft Azure AI Foundry has not published the date this happened
- Retired
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
What to use instead of DeepSeek-R1
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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), also open weights; shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
— in · — out / M tokens 1M context
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GPT-5 Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier); shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$1.25 in · $10.00 out / M tokens 400K context
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GPT-5-Codex Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier); shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$1.25 in · $10.00 out / M tokens 400K context
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GPT-5.1 Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier); shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$1.25 in · $10.00 out / M tokens 400K context
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Kimi K2 Thinking Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (mid-tier), also open weights; shares chat, coding, reasoning and agents.
$0.60 in · $2.50 out / M tokens 256K context
Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- learn.microsoft.com https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirement-schedule
- learn.microsoft.com https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/concepts/model-retirements
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- Is DeepSeek-R1 deprecated?
- No longer available. Microsoft Azure AI Foundry shut DeepSeek-R1 down on 2026-08-13 — calls to it fail.
- When does DeepSeek-R1 shut down?
- Microsoft Azure AI Foundry has announced 2026-08-13 as the shutdown date for DeepSeek-R1.
- What does DeepSeek-R1 cost?
- No public price is listed for DeepSeek-R1 in our dataset.
- What can I use instead of DeepSeek-R1?
- Active alternatives include Microsoft Azure AI Foundry DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry GPT-5, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry GPT-5-Codex.