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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 · 3,379 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 / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,425.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.04 – 1,448.62

633 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,390.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,363.00 – 1,418.41

435 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,428.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.28 – 1,443.71

1467 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,405.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,391.60 – 1,420.26

2430 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,425.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,411.63 – 1,440.34

1659 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,431.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.49 – 1,453.31

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,414.89 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.74 – 1,437.04

692 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,391.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,368.08 – 1,415.08

609 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,457.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,422.07 – 1,493.01

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,445.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.98 – 1,470.20

530 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,468.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.38 – 1,506.12

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,425.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.34 – 1,443.33

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,409.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.99 – 1,430.22

761 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,404.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.66 – 1,424.82

858 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,421.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.21 – 1,443.67

680 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,410.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.37 – 1,435.17

571 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,405.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,391.92 – 1,418.54

1912 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,419.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.05 – 1,429.23

3379 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,426.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.96 – 1,465.65

205 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

1,436.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.38 – 1,469.64

283 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus (Thinking)

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT