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DeepSeek-Coder-V2

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

DeepSeek-Coder-V2 1191.2 DeepSeek-Coder-V2 · 95% interval 1184.8–1197.5 · 15,147 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,200.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,185.71 – 1,215.87

1712 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,250.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,238.81 – 1,262.56

2671 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,119.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,106.62 – 1,133.29

2271 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,194.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.42 – 1,202.49

8140 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,070.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,060.69 – 1,079.56

9900 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,181.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,159.80 – 1,202.50

769 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,185.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,143.43 – 1,226.75

207 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,164.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,137.96 – 1,190.66

516 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,206.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,196.91 – 1,216.44

4439 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,217.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.39 – 1,229.18

2699 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,155.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,140.60 – 1,169.59

1796 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,122.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,109.44 – 1,134.76

2513 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,163.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,142.79 – 1,183.49

888 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,162.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,149.78 – 1,175.52

2552 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,232.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,218.65 – 1,246.79

1669 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,133.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,112.36 – 1,154.01

847 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,238.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,228.57 – 1,248.78

4344 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,170.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,159.43 – 1,181.01

3882 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,180.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,171.09 – 1,189.24

5614 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,126.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,094.35 – 1,158.54

345 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,103.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,072.08 – 1,135.91

399 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,218.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.84 – 1,232.61

1842 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,241.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,227.73 – 1,254.84

1858 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,176.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,164.09 – 1,188.94

2683 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,181.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,173.66 – 1,190.22

7007 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,191.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,184.83 – 1,197.50

15147 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,187.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,173.50 – 1,201.69

1823 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

1,153.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,115.56 – 1,190.79

245 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-Coder-V2
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

DeepSeek-Coder-V2

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
DeepSeek License