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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 1419.6 deepseek-v3.1 · 95% interval 1413.6–1425.7 · 14,610 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-v3.1

1,451.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,435.23 – 1,467.00

1398 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,413.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.23 – 1,425.28

2604 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,387.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,374.59 – 1,401.34

1978 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,429.76 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.65 – 1,437.87

5997 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,405.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.31 – 1,413.78

10425 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,403.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.80 – 1,424.77

734 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,447.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,412.95 – 1,481.59

288 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,411.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,382.28 – 1,440.80

398 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,414.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.52 – 1,422.05

6717 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,419.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.69 – 1,430.66

2873 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,404.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.90 – 1,416.65

2504 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,378.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,366.83 – 1,389.38

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,416.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.00 – 1,434.58

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,433.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.08 – 1,445.77

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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,413.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,394.14 – 1,433.29

829 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,431.32 rating

Confidence interval: 1,412.26 – 1,450.38

938 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,426.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,417.80 – 1,435.64

4634 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 · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,397.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.95 – 1,407.37

3421 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,388.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,378.43 – 1,398.05

3685 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,378.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,347.25 – 1,409.37

334 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,337.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,310.83 – 1,364.83

491 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,399.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,389.18 – 1,409.87

3243 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,420.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.76 – 1,438.39

980 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,400.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.09 – 1,411.92

2399 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,399.76 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.58 – 1,406.94

8613 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,419.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.57 – 1,425.65

14610 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,409.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,390.79 – 1,428.87

1006 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,404.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.23 – 1,423.24

958 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1

1,430.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.68 – 1,460.43

411 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

deepseek-v3.1

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT