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DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

Model evaluation

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 · 2026-10-28

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-V2.5 (1210)

1,317.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,291.47 – 1,343.51

446 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,309.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,292.40 – 1,325.86

1079 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,284.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,267.61 – 1,301.98

1090 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,309.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,299.26 – 1,319.87

3776 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,228.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,215.63 – 1,241.67

4213 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,265.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,240.04 – 1,291.93

441 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,258.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.46 – 1,303.80

140 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,289.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,275.88 – 1,302.29

1790 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,298.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,282.60 – 1,315.12

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,259.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,237.85 – 1,280.52

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,275.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,259.08 – 1,290.96

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,278.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,249.47 – 1,307.87

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,288.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.50 – 1,304.87

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,278.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,260.45 – 1,295.85

893 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,291.89 rating

Confidence interval: 1,259.54 – 1,324.23

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,313.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,299.09 – 1,327.07

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,282.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,269.68 – 1,296.31

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,279.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,268.33 – 1,290.63

2970 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,227.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.60 – 1,269.33

161 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,300.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,283.36 – 1,317.60

1037 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,288.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.85 – 1,305.07

1031 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,273.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,262.09 – 1,284.25

3019 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,293.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,285.68 – 1,302.12

6795 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

1,289.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,271.83 – 1,306.39

1034 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

DeepSeek-V2.5 (1210)

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

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