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deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max 1462.8 deepseek-v4.1-flash-max · 95% interval 1456.6–1469.0 · 12,793 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-v4.1-flash-max

1,503.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,484.33 – 1,522.23

973 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,501.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,491.06 – 1,511.46

3527 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,436.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,424.28 – 1,448.79

2597 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,473.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,464.23 – 1,482.04

4700 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,465.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,457.20 – 1,473.55

9247 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,505.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,489.31 – 1,520.70

1412 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,463.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,434.95 – 1,491.35

477 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,476.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.56 – 1,512.49

230 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,482.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,475.08 – 1,489.48

8236 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,487.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,476.74 – 1,498.41

3096 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,460.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,447.83 – 1,472.96

2252 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,445.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,433.98 – 1,456.50

3124 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,446.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.65 – 1,464.77

1075 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,469.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,456.79 – 1,483.10

2098 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,485.30 rating

Confidence interval: 1,464.92 – 1,505.68

795 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,483.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,462.86 – 1,504.39

854 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,496.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,487.77 – 1,505.20

5020 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,450.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.87 – 1,461.51

3343 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,473.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,464.09 – 1,482.64

4477 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,420.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,383.11 – 1,458.16

271 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,440.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.49 – 1,479.75

230 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,473.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,465.06 – 1,482.21

5559 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,477.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,455.74 – 1,499.95

664 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,459.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,446.03 – 1,473.95

1845 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,448.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.47 – 1,455.96

8085 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,462.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,456.65 – 1,469.05

12793 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,453.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.55 – 1,491.35

214 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,465.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,451.38 – 1,479.47

1842 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

1,458.59 rating

Confidence interval: 1,430.97 – 1,486.21

435 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
deepseek-v4.1-flash-max
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

deepseek-v4.1-flash-max

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT