Reasoning-only

DeepSeek-R1

Released
20 Jan 2025
Status
Legacy
Context
131.1K
Max output
—
Input per 1M tokens
—
Output per 1M tokens
—
Open weights
Yes
License
mit
Parameters
671B, 37B active
Knowledge cutoff
—
Reasoning
Yes
Modalities
text → text

Category scores

Out of 100, from independent and third-party results only, by method category-2026-09-29.1.

Category scores
CategoryScoreRankCoverage
Knowledge & reasoning29.0Not ranked1 of 4
Coding & software engineering71.4Not ranked1 of 5
Agentic tool use35.092 of 2
Human preference53.1Not ranked1 of 5

Benchmark results

Every result we hold for this model, with who ran it and where it was published.

Knowledge & reasoning

Knowledge & reasoning results
BenchmarkMetricValueProvenanceSettingEvaluatedSource
MMLU-ProAccuracy84.0%Self-reported——Model Card via Hugging Face Community Evals
SimpleBenchScore (AVG@5)40.8%Third party——SimpleBench Leaderboard via Epoch AI
SimpleBenchScore (AVG@5)30.9%Third party——SimpleBench Leaderboard via Epoch AI

Scientific reasoning

Scientific reasoning results
BenchmarkMetricValueProvenanceSettingEvaluatedSource
GPQA DiamondAccuracy76.3%Independent—29 May 2025Epoch AI
GPQA DiamondAccuracy71.7%Independent—26 May 2025Epoch AI
GPQA DiamondAccuracy71.5%Self-reported——Model Card via Hugging Face Community Evals

Mathematics

Mathematics results
BenchmarkMetricValueProvenanceSettingEvaluatedSource
MATH Level 5Accuracy96.6%Independent—29 May 2025Epoch AI
MATH Level 5Accuracy93.1%Independent—31 Jan 2025Epoch AI
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Accuracy66.4%Independent—29 May 2025Epoch AI
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Accuracy53.3%Independent—26 Feb 2025Epoch AI

Coding & software engineering

Coding & software engineering results
BenchmarkMetricValueProvenanceSettingEvaluatedSource
Aider PolyglotPercent correct71.4%Third party——https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ via Epoch AI
Aider PolyglotPercent correct56.9%Third party——https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ via Epoch AI
METR Time HorizonsAverage task success (Epoch's column)53.8%Third party——METR - Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks via Epoch AI
METR Time HorizonsAverage task success (Epoch's column)51.9%Third party——METR - Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks via Epoch AI
WeirdML (v2)Average accuracy41.6%Third party——https://htihle.github.io/weirdml.html via Epoch AI
WeirdML (v2)Average accuracy36.5%Third party——https://htihle.github.io/weirdml.html via Epoch AI

Agentic tool use

Agentic tool use results
BenchmarkMetricValueProvenanceSettingEvaluatedSource
BALROGAverage progress34.9%Third party——https://balrogai.com/ via Epoch AI
Deep Research Bench (FutureSearch)Average score35.1%Third party——DeepResearchBench Leaderboard via Epoch AI

Long context

Long context results
BenchmarkMetricValueProvenanceSettingEvaluatedSource
Fiction.LiveBench% correct at 16K tokens (Epoch's column)75.0%Third party——Fiction.live leaderboard via Epoch AI
Fiction.LiveBench% correct at 16K tokens (Epoch's column)69.4%Third party——Fiction.live leaderboard via Epoch AI

Writing

Writing results
BenchmarkMetricValueProvenanceSettingEvaluatedSource
LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark V1 (Lech Mazur)Mean rubric score (percent of the 10-point scale)83.0%Third party——lechmazur/writing Github repository via Epoch AI
LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark V1 (Lech Mazur)Mean rubric score (percent of the 10-point scale)81.9%Third party——lechmazur/writing Github repository via Epoch AI

Human preference

Human preference results
BenchmarkMetricValueProvenanceSettingEvaluatedSource
Text Arena (arena.ai)Arena score (Elo scale)1422Independent—25 Sep 2026Arena
Text Arena (arena.ai)Arena score (Elo scale)1398Independent—25 Sep 2026Arena
Text Arena (arena.ai)Votes18524Independent—25 Sep 2026Arena
Text Arena (arena.ai)Votes18065Independent—25 Sep 2026Arena

Other DeepSeek-R versions

Sources