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deepseek

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

AI model

Context window
163,840 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

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

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210 1293.9 deepseek-v2.5-1210 · 95% interval 1285.7–1302.1 · 6,795 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-V2.5-1210

1,317.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,291.51 – 1,343.56

446 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,309.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,292.50 – 1,325.96

1079 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,284.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,267.76 – 1,302.14

1090 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,309.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,299.21 – 1,319.81

3776 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,228.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,215.64 – 1,241.68

4213 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,266.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,240.08 – 1,291.98

441 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,258.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.47 – 1,303.79

140 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,289.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,275.86 – 1,302.28

1790 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,298.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,282.48 – 1,315.01

1132 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,259.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,237.89 – 1,280.56

715 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,275.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,259.14 – 1,291.02

1216 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,278.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,249.21 – 1,307.62

375 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,288.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.47 – 1,304.85

1137 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,278.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,260.45 – 1,295.84

893 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,291.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,259.60 – 1,324.30

291 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,313.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,299.17 – 1,327.16

1688 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,283.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,269.74 – 1,296.37

1930 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,279.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,268.34 – 1,290.63

2970 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,227.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.46 – 1,269.14

161 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,300.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,283.40 – 1,317.65

1037 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,288.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.81 – 1,305.03

1031 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,296.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,280.34 – 1,312.90

1178 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,273.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,262.19 – 1,284.34

3019 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,293.89 rating

Confidence interval: 1,285.67 – 1,302.11

6795 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

1,289.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.98 – 1,306.55

1034 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v2.5-1210
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

DeepSeek-V2.5-1210

439.1 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 235.74 B stored tensor elements · BF16

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

Capabilities

Context window
163,840 tokens
Open weights
Yes
Model license
other
Checkpoint tensor payload
439.10 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text

Processing & platform

Architecture
deepseek_v2