Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3.1 vs o1

DeepSeek-V3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.8 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3.1 DeepSeek

42.8

Rank #108 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3.1 scores higher in 5 categories and o1 in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 36.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 52.8% for DeepSeek-V3.1 and 83.3% for o1.
  • DeepSeek-V3.1 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.95 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • o1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 164K.
  • DeepSeek-V3.1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3.1 and o1 specifications
DeepSeek-V3.1o1
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index42.840.9
Released2025-08-212024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window164K200K
Max output8K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$15
Output $ / M tokens$0.95$60
Results tracked2752

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 40.3 (#144), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
WeirdML38.4%47.6%
LMArena Coding14171367
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning Too close to call

DeepSeek-V3.1: 27.9 (#110), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
SimpleBench40%41.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14171371
DTBench82.7%74.7%
LMCA24.3%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index139.92141.91
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.2%—
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
ForecastBench58—
LiveBench—75.7%

Math DeepSeek-V3.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 38.9 (#122), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
LMArena Math14201388
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge DeepSeek-V3.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 43.7 (#90), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
LMArena Expert14051361
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual DeepSeek-V3.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 51.6 (#106), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
LMArena Non-English14001358
LMArena Chinese14691394
LMArena French14471344
LMArena German14111337
LMArena Japanese13781346
LMArena Korean13371396
LMArena Russian14051356
LMArena Spanish14311345

Instruction Following Too close to call

DeepSeek-V3.1: 73.9 (#110), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
LMArena Instruction Following14001367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 36.3 (#232), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
Fiction.LiveBench52.8%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query14221378

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V3.1 leads

DeepSeek-V3.1: 60.3 (#98), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1o1
LMArena Text14201366
LMArena Creative Writing14011348
LMArena Multi-Turn14081369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1436—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3.1 better than o1?

DeepSeek-V3.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.8 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-V3.1 or o1?

DeepSeek-V3.1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.95 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is DeepSeek-V3.1 or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 40.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

o1 does, with 200K tokens against 164K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3.1 and o1 share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3.1 has 27 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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