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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 · 11,458 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 (Thinking)

1,468.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,450.27 – 1,486.53

1142 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,416.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.38 – 1,430.31

1874 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,400.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.09 – 1,415.56

1618 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,432.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,423.10 – 1,441.04

4661 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,403.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,394.12 – 1,412.06

8140 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,404.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,380.22 – 1,429.45

538 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,401.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,357.94 – 1,445.89

183 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,408.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,376.17 – 1,440.38

323 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,416.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.19 – 1,425.43

5084 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,427.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.69 – 1,440.05

2129 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,408.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.54 – 1,422.32

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,393.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,380.95 – 1,405.92

2204 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,417.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,396.58 – 1,437.80

770 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,427.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.11 – 1,441.39

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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,437.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.56 – 1,461.22

561 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,443.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,421.16 – 1,466.21

688 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,426.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.88 – 1,437.10

3464 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,404.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.95 – 1,415.82

2723 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,400.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,389.25 – 1,411.45

2832 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,359.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,322.92 – 1,396.01

258 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,336.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,305.34 – 1,368.40

374 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,421.59 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.64 – 1,433.55

2375 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,414.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.82 – 1,436.80

658 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,407.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.69 – 1,421.46

1816 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,399.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.08 – 1,407.74

6797 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,416.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.97 – 1,423.22

11458 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,404.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,384.32 – 1,425.37

787 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,399.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.05 – 1,419.43

727 votes

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

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

1,411.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.67 – 1,441.58

388 votes

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

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

DeepSeek-V3.1 (Thinking)

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT