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DeepSeek-V3.1

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 1419.5 DeepSeek-V3.1 · 95% interval 1413.5–1425.6 · 14,606 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-V3.1

1,450.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,435.07 – 1,466.84

1398 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,413.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.00 – 1,425.05

2603 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,387.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,374.27 – 1,401.02

1977 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,429.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.68 – 1,437.90

5998 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,405.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.15 – 1,413.62

10422 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,403.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.73 – 1,424.70

734 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,447.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.42 – 1,482.05

288 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,410.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.52 – 1,440.08

397 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,414.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.41 – 1,421.94

6714 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,419.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.65 – 1,430.62

2872 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,404.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.83 – 1,416.59

2503 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,378.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,366.80 – 1,389.35

2743 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,416.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.25 – 1,434.82

1001 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,433.32 rating

Confidence interval: 1,420.98 – 1,445.67

2290 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,413.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.70 – 1,432.86

828 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,431.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,412.43 – 1,450.54

939 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,426.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,417.62 – 1,435.46

4632 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,397.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.85 – 1,407.26

3421 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,388.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,378.39 – 1,398.01

3684 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,378.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,347.41 – 1,409.55

334 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,337.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,309.95 – 1,364.06

489 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,399.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.95 – 1,409.64

3242 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,419.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.42 – 1,438.06

979 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,399.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.01 – 1,411.85

2398 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,399.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.35 – 1,406.72

8608 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,419.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.47 – 1,425.56

14606 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,409.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,390.75 – 1,428.83

1006 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,404.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.14 – 1,423.20

957 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1

1,430.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.78 – 1,460.52

411 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

DeepSeek-V3.1

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT