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deepseek-v3.2-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-v3.2-thinking 1419.9 deepseek-v3.2-thinking · 95% interval 1416.3–1423.4 · 42,071 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-v3.2-thinking

1,447.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,437.20 – 1,458.38

3129 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,453.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,446.78 – 1,460.03

8890 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,389.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.44 – 1,396.74

6413 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,439.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,434.10 – 1,444.27

17157 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,407.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.09 – 1,412.09

29462 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,430.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.94 – 1,442.00

2886 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,423.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,404.36 – 1,441.99

1049 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,413.32 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.24 – 1,434.40

748 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,430.57 rating

Confidence interval: 1,426.00 – 1,435.14

23348 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,445.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.26 – 1,452.11

9602 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,409.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.47 – 1,416.11

8103 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,386.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.66 – 1,393.63

7759 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,418.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.19 – 1,429.11

3086 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,425.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.62 – 1,433.29

6871 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,439.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,426.55 – 1,453.13

1967 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,420.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.61 – 1,431.79

2826 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,449.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,444.03 – 1,454.95

14308 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,398.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.11 – 1,404.88

9737 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,408.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.61 – 1,414.35

11732 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,374.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,345.50 – 1,404.20

386 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,362.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,340.13 – 1,385.63

702 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,425.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.98 – 1,431.87

11742 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,422.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.93 – 1,433.77

2633 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,423.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.44 – 1,431.29

7002 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,398.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,394.52 – 1,403.37

24894 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,419.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.34 – 1,423.45

42071 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,419.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.05 – 1,436.30

1119 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,407.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.05 – 1,415.17

5423 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

1,416.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.86 – 1,432.22

1359 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v3.2-thinking
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

deepseek-v3.2-thinking

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT