Helicone
The official DeepSeek API change log records that the legacy `deepseek-reasoner` API alias is scheduled to be "fully retired and inaccessible after Jul 24th, 2026, 15:59 (UTC Time)" and is currently routed to `deepseek-v4-flash` in non-thinking/thinking modes. This is first-party documentation that explicitly names the For developers, the practical implication drawn from this change log is that any request still using the `deepseek-reasoner` model identifier against the DeepSeek API is now served by V4-Flash under the hood, and the original alias is no longer a separately maintained target. Helicone's gateway exposes the same retired