# deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b

Calls to the model deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b on Together AI stopped working on August 28, 2025.

## What to use instead

Move to Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B, recommended by Together AI.

- API: Together AI (api.together.xyz)
- Model: deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: August 28, 2025
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Together AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/together-ai/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b/

## Together AI's words

> Removal date: 2025-08-28; Model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B; Supported by on-demand dedicated endpoints: No

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