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deepseek-v3.1-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-thinking 1416.6 deepseek-v3.1-thinking · 95% interval 1410.0–1423.2 · 11,459 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-thinking

1,468.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,450.43 – 1,486.69

1142 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,416.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.47 – 1,430.40

1874 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,401.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.28 – 1,415.76

1616 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,432.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,423.11 – 1,441.05

4663 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,403.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,394.20 – 1,412.14

8140 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,404.89 rating

Confidence interval: 1,380.27 – 1,429.50

538 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,401.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,357.45 – 1,445.43

183 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,407.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,375.18 – 1,439.45

322 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,416.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.07 – 1,425.30

5086 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,427.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.45 – 1,439.81

2130 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,409.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.61 – 1,422.39

1936 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,393.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.02 – 1,406.00

2202 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,416.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.90 – 1,437.10

771 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,427.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.17 – 1,441.45

1831 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,437.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.62 – 1,461.28

561 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,443.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,420.82 – 1,465.88

687 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,426.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.87 – 1,437.08

3466 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,404.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.06 – 1,415.94

2721 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,400.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,389.24 – 1,411.44

2832 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,359.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,322.73 – 1,395.81

258 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,336.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,304.88 – 1,367.94

373 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,421.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.77 – 1,433.69

2373 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,414.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.87 – 1,436.85

658 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,407.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.55 – 1,421.33

1815 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,400.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.18 – 1,407.83

6796 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,416.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.98 – 1,423.22

11459 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,404.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.35 – 1,425.40

787 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,399.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.10 – 1,419.48

727 votes

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

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

1,411.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.55 – 1,441.46

388 votes

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

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Inference · memory estimate

deepseek-v3.1-thinking

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT