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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) 1419.8 DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking) · 95% interval 1416.2–1423.3 · 42,033 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-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,447.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,437.31 – 1,458.48

3129 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,453.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,446.55 – 1,459.81

8871 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,388.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.32 – 1,396.62

6409 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,439.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,434.01 – 1,444.17

17146 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,406.89 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.90 – 1,411.89

29430 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,431.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.98 – 1,442.06

2880 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,422.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.40 – 1,441.01

1045 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,413.47 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.42 – 1,434.51

748 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,430.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.91 – 1,435.05

23318 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,445.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.18 – 1,452.03

9593 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,409.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.26 – 1,415.90

8101 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,386.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.38 – 1,393.36

7745 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,418.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.34 – 1,429.25

3085 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,425.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.44 – 1,433.10

6865 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,440.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,426.74 – 1,453.30

1968 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,420.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,409.19 – 1,431.37

2823 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,449.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,443.91 – 1,454.83

14284 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 · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,398.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,391.89 – 1,404.65

9733 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,408.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.48 – 1,414.22

11721 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,374.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,345.51 – 1,404.23

385 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,363.36 rating

Confidence interval: 1,340.64 – 1,386.08

700 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,425.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.89 – 1,431.78

11726 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,422.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.86 – 1,433.71

2631 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,424.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.66 – 1,431.51

6996 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,398.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,394.32 – 1,403.17

24867 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,419.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.23 – 1,423.34

42033 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,419.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.10 – 1,436.33

1119 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,407.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.06 – 1,415.16

5416 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

DeepSeek-V3.2 (Thinking)

1,415.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.19 – 1,431.43

1365 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