# qwen/qvq-72b-preview

Calls to the model qwen/qvq-72b-preview on DeepInfra stopped working on October 1, 2026.

DeepInfra retired model qwen/qvq-72b-preview on October 1, 2026. Calls targeting model qwen/qvq-72b-preview fail since that date. The change took effect on api.deepinfra.com without backward compatibility for requests sent to this model identifier.

## What to use instead

Move to google/gemma-4-31B-it-turbo, which is recommended by DeepInfra.

- API: DeepInfra (api.deepinfra.com)
- Model: qwen/qvq-72b-preview
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: October 1, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model qwen/qvq-72b-preview`
- Source: [Model list](https://api.deepinfra.com/models/list)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against DeepInfra's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/deepinfra/qwen/qvq-72b-preview/

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