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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 · 2026-10-15

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,200.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,185.76 – 1,215.92

1712 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,250.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,238.91 – 1,262.66

2671 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,120.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,106.77 – 1,133.45

2271 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,194.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.37 – 1,202.44

8140 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,070.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,060.70 – 1,079.58

9900 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,181.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,159.84 – 1,202.55

769 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,184.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,143.09 – 1,226.46

207 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,164.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,137.99 – 1,190.62

516 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,206.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,196.89 – 1,216.43

4439 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,217.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.27 – 1,229.07

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,155.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,140.63 – 1,169.64

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,122.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,109.50 – 1,134.82

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,162.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,142.53 – 1,183.24

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,162.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,149.76 – 1,175.50

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 · 2026-10-15 · 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,133.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,112.41 – 1,154.07

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,238.76 rating

Confidence interval: 1,228.66 – 1,248.86

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,170.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,159.49 – 1,181.07

3882 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,180.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,171.10 – 1,189.25

5614 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,126.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,094.23 – 1,158.33

345 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,104.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,072.13 – 1,135.93

399 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,218.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.88 – 1,232.66

1842 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,241.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,227.69 – 1,254.80

1858 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,176.51 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,182.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,173.75 – 1,190.32

7007 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,191.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,184.82 – 1,197.49

15147 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,187.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,173.65 – 1,201.85

1823 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-coder-v2
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-coder-v2

1,153.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,115.46 – 1,190.74

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