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DeepSeek V3

DeepSeek · 685B · open weights

Strongest in Factual grounding (#24 of 101), weakest in Agents (#259 of 268). Above par in 6 of 27 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Gemini 3.8 Flash and Claude Opus 5 and ahead of Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and GPT OSS 120B.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Professional49.3#90/168
Legal49.6#81/151
Medical49.2#86/140
Finance48.8#93/151
Knowledge48.2#96/138
Academic knowledge47.8#88/123
Core abilities49.9#97/204
General intelligence49.8#98/204
Coding45.9#111/165
Agentic coding52.7#52/157
Code generation35#71/77
Human preference56.6#127/342
Human preference56.6#127/342
Reasoning42.2#145/178
Mathematics46.3#92/140
Science39.9#99/122
Reasoning39.7#114/140
Safety47.3#247/337
Factual grounding59.8#24/101
Safe-prompt compliance56.6#24/82
Fairness50.7#104/300
Secure code48.6#171/274
Toxicity avoidance44.2#233/272
Harm refusal45.6#238/300
Jailbreak resistance28.8#256/272
Agents37.5#259/268
Knowledge work33.7#166/178

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for DeepSeek V3, left for the other.

Command R Pluswon 15 · lost 3
Command Awon 18 · lost 5
Mistral Medium 3.5won 13 · lost 4
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 17 · lost 6
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 14 · lost 5
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 17 · lost 7
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 12 · lost 5
Mistral Smallwon 14 · lost 6
GPT-4o Miniwon 17 · lost 8
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 17 · lost 8
Mistral Largewon 11 · lost 7
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 12 · lost 8
GPT OSS 120Bwon 14 · lost 12
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 10 · lost 9
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 9 · lost 9
GPT OSS 20Bwon 11 · lost 11
Claude Haiku 4.5won 13 · lost 13
GPT-4owon 11 · lost 12
GPT-5.4 Nanowon 10 · lost 11
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litewon 9 · lost 10
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 10 · lost 12
Mistral Large 3won 9 · lost 11
Grok 4.3won 11 · lost 14
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 8 · lost 11
GPT-5.4 Miniwon 8 · lost 12
GPT-5 Nanowon 9 · lost 14
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 8 · lost 13
O3 Miniwon 9 · lost 15
GLM-4.6won 9 · lost 15
Gemini 3.1 Flash Litewon 7 · lost 12
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 9 · lost 16
Kimi K2won 9 · lost 16
DeepSeek V3.2won 9 · lost 16
MiniMax M3won 8 · lost 17
Kimi K2.6won 8 · lost 18
Grok 4won 7 · lost 17
MiniMax M2.7won 6 · lost 15
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 7 · lost 18
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 6 · lost 16
Gemma 4 31Bwon 6 · lost 16
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 19
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 19
Grok 3won 5 · lost 16
DeepSeek R1won 6 · lost 20
Grok 4 Fastwon 4 · lost 14
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 18
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 5 · lost 19
GPT-4.1won 5 · lost 20
Inklingwon 5 · lost 20
Kimi K2.5won 5 · lost 20
GPT-5 Miniwon 5 · lost 21
Claude Sonnet 4won 5 · lost 22
GLM-5.1won 4 · lost 18
Claude Opus 4.6won 4 · lost 18
GLM-5won 3 · lost 15
GLM-5.2won 4 · lost 21
GLM-4.5won 3 · lost 16
O4 Miniwon 4 · lost 22
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 4 · lost 22
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 4 · lost 23
Claude Opus 4won 3 · lost 22
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 3 · lost 22
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 3 · lost 22
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 3 · lost 22
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 2 · lost 17
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 2 · lost 18
Claude Opus 4.5won 2 · lost 18
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 2 · lost 19
GPT-6 Lunawon 2 · lost 20
Gemini 3 Prowon 2 · lost 20
GPT-6 Solwon 2 · lost 21
GPT-5.1won 2 · lost 22
GPT-5.2won 2 · lost 23
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 24
GPT-5won 2 · lost 24
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 2 · lost 24
GPT-5.4won 2 · lost 24
GPT-6 Astrawon 1 · lost 17
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 1 · lost 18
O1won 1 · lost 20
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 1 · lost 24
Claude Sonnet 5won 1 · lost 24
Grok 4.5won 1 · lost 24
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 1 · lost 24
Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 24
GPT-5.5won 1 · lost 25
GPT-5.6 Solwon 1 · lost 25
Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 25
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 18
Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 18
GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 19
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 19
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 19
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 19
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 19
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 22
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 22
O3won 0 · lost 25
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 25
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 25
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 25
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 25
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 0 · lost 25

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

11 publications, 26 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LMArena Text 1396
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
GDPval-AA 56
AA-Briefcase ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
AA-Briefcase 71
LiveCodeBench ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LiveCodeBench 27.2%
Aider polyglot ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Aider polyglot 55.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Kagi LLM Benchmark 52.3%
SimpleBench ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
SimpleBench 27.2%
Vals.ai ↗7 measuresread 2026-09-26
Vals · LegalBench 77.73%Vals · CorpFin 54.74%Vals · TaxEval 71.1%Vals · MedQA 82%Vals · GPQA Diamond 61.62%Vals · MMLU Pro 79.47%Vals · AIME 52.2%
HELM Safety ↗5 measuresread 2026-09-26
HELM Safety · HarmBench 49.7%HELM Safety · SimpleSafetyTests 95.3%HELM Safety · Anthropic Red Team 97.1%HELM Safety · BBQ 96.7%HELM Safety · XSTest 97.1%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-09-26
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 30.7%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 47.8%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 12.7%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 10.4%Enkrypt · Bias risk 86.8%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 36.4%
Vectara · Factual consistency 93.9%

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