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deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

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-terminus-thinking 1419.1 deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking · 95% interval 1409.0–1429.2 · 3,375 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 / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,425.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.16 – 1,448.76

633 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,391.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,363.40 – 1,418.93

434 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,428.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.59 – 1,444.07

1464 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,405.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,391.54 – 1,420.21

2429 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,425.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,411.29 – 1,440.00

1658 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,431.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.41 – 1,453.24

729 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,414.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.29 – 1,436.60

691 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,391.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,367.56 – 1,414.58

608 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,457.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.82 – 1,492.77

258 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,446.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.25 – 1,471.64

527 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,468.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.46 – 1,506.23

227 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,425.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.43 – 1,443.43

1133 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,408.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.62 – 1,429.86

760 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,403.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,383.79 – 1,423.94

858 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,421.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.31 – 1,443.78

680 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,410.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.39 – 1,435.20

571 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,405.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,391.70 – 1,418.32

1911 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,419.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.03 – 1,429.22

3375 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,426.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.98 – 1,465.67

205 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

1,436.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.40 – 1,469.68

283 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

deepseek-v3.1-terminus-thinking

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT