# deepseek/deepseek-v3/community

Calls to the model deepseek/deepseek-v3/community on Novita AI stopped working on September 29, 2026.

On September 29, 2026, Novita AI retired the model deepseek/deepseek-v3/community. Calls using this model fail since that day.

## What to use instead

Move to deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash, recommended by Novita.

- API: Novita AI (api.novita.ai)
- Model: deepseek/deepseek-v3/community
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: September 29, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model deepseek/deepseek-v3/community`
- 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-v3/community/

## Novita AI's words

> Model ID: deepseek/deepseek-v3/community; Retirement date: Sep 29, 2026; Replacement model: deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash

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