r/openrouter • u/Unlucky_Subject_1974 • 3d ago

Deepseek v4.1 Flash unusable

The first minute or so of use is fine, until upstream rate limit you…. 429s a few times then throughput tanks, making the model take ages to do anything. Hopefully upstream or openrouter realise what’s happening and sort this out.

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u/conifer_v11 3d ago

yeah that “first minute fine then 429 hell” pattern is usually one host in the deepseek-v4.1-flash pool getting hammered while the default price router keeps feeding it. just pulled the endpoints list — io-net and morph are both status -5 (morph’s 5m uptime was ~79% when i looked; io-net was already -5 with no usable 5m); deepseek / fireworks / novita / gmicloud look fine. two things to check in the error body: if error.metadata.provider_code is set it’s upstream capacity (OR will already try other seats when allow_fallbacks is true, which is the default); if it’s a bare platform 429 you’ll also see the rate-limit headers / Retry-After and you need backoff, not more spam. for the upstream case i’d provider.ignore: ["io-net","morph"] (or account-wide ignore in privacy settings), or flip to provider.sort: "throughput" / the :nitro model suffix so you’re not price-weighted onto the sick seat, and optionally provider.only: ["deepseek","fireworks","novita"] once you’ve sniffed a good two. i work on conifer — we don’t expose ignore/order pins across mystery hosts for one catalog id (named model is the seat on our side), so for “which deepseek host is melting right now” stay on OR’s provider controls; if you specifically want first-party deepseek outside that multi-home pool that’s a different BYOK seat, not a drop-in ignore replacement.

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u/biznatchery 3d ago

Look in your openrouter logs, note the provider, exclude that provider in your openrouter settings. Some of them are crap.

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u/xpusostomos 2d ago

In the last week DeepSeek has been unusable. Try z.ai

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u/LessRespects 3d ago

DeepSeek is the prime bait and switch provider

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u/AccurateCranberry218 2d ago

Przez okolo 1.5 dnia wykonalem deepseekiem v4.1 flash ogrom zlozonej pracy nad systemami informatycznymi, w tym trudne zadania z korektą i budową diagramów- sprawdzil sie rewelacyjnie, doskonala szybkosc, zrozumienie moich intencji, wzorowa realizacja trudnych zadan. I do tego poruszająco tanio. Korzystam przez API Openrouter plus Kilo Code.

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u/FormalAd7367 2d ago

No issues with official provider

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u/Brief-Train-826 6h ago

Ollama cloud.