FUEL Status - Elevated 429 errors on DeepSeek-V4-Flash (EU) – Incident details
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Elevated 429 errors on DeepSeek-V4-Flash (EU)
Resolved
Partial outage
Started 11 days agoSeptember 17, 2026Lasted about 2 hoursSeptember 17, 20269:1311:02 AMUTC
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Resolved
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Resolved
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The scheduler improvement is confirmed stable. Error rates and latency for DeepSeek-V4-Flash in the EU region remain at normal. This incident is closed.
Monitoring
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Monitoring
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The scheduler improvement for DeepSeek-V4-Flash is fully rolled out. Error rates and latency are back to normal. Occasional rejections may still occur on demand-based tiers under heavy load. We are monitoring and will close this incident once stability holds.
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Update
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Requests to the DeepSeek-V4-Flash model in the EU region are seeing elevated HTTP 429 responses under sustained high demand on shared-capacity tiers. Committed-capacity tiers are unaffected. A scheduler improvement for this model is being rolled out now. We recommend retrying with backoff. We will update this page when the error rate returns to normal.
Identified
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Identified
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We are investigating elevated HTTP 429 (rate limit) errors affecting requests to the DeepSeek-V4-Flash model in the EU region. Some requests are being rejected. We are working to restore normal service and will update this page as we learn more.