# deepseek/deepseek-ocr

Calls to the model deepseek/deepseek-ocr on Novita AI stopped working on January 8, 2026.

## What to use instead

Move to qwen/qwen3.8-max. qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct, named first, stopped working on 2026-10-09.

- API: Novita AI (api.novita.ai)
- Model: deepseek/deepseek-ocr
- Released: October 20, 2025 (models.dev)
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: January 8, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model deepseek/deepseek-ocr`
- Source: [Model notices](https://novita.ai/docs/llms-full.txt#deprecation-notice)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Novita AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/novita-ai/deepseek/deepseek-ocr/

## Novita AI's words

> Deprecated model: deepseek/deepseek-ocr; Recommended alternatives: qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct

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