diff --git a/litellm-rust/crates/gateway-inference/src/messages.rs b/litellm-rust/crates/gateway-inference/src/messages.rs
index c7a8e3e3294..d612a042e03 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/crates/gateway-inference/src/messages.rs
+++ b/litellm-rust/crates/gateway-inference/src/messages.rs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const OPENROUTER_API_HEADERS: [&str; 2] = [
     "x-openrouter-experimental-metadata",
 ];
 const ANTHROPIC_API_HEADER_PROVIDERS: &str =
-    "anthropic,bedrock,bedrock_mantle,vertex_ai,openrouter";
+    "anthropic,bedrock,bedrock_mantle,vertex_ai,openrouter,deepseek";
 
 pub async fn create(
     State(gateway): State<Arc<Gateway>>,
diff --git a/litellm-rust/crates/gateway-inference/tests/messages.rs b/litellm-rust/crates/gateway-inference/tests/messages.rs
index b0a9baa2fac..bf11e67e0fc 100644
--- a/litellm-rust/crates/gateway-inference/tests/messages.rs
+++ b/litellm-rust/crates/gateway-inference/tests/messages.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use wiremock::{
 #[rstest]
 #[case::anthropic("anthropic/test-model", "/v1/messages", true)]
 #[case::azure("azure_ai/test-model", "/anthropic/v1/messages", false)]
-#[case::deepseek("deepseek/test-model", "/anthropic/v1/messages", false)]
+#[case::deepseek("deepseek/test-model", "/anthropic/v1/messages", true)]
 #[tokio::test]
 async fn messages_reaches_the_provider_and_preserves_json_or_sse(
     #[case] model: &str,