DeepSeek · Open weights
DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking
Thinking enabled version of Deepseek V3.1. DeepSeek-V3.1 is a hybrid model that supports both thinking mode and non-thinking mode. It does better at tool calling and agent tasks, and has higher thinking efficiency than its predecessor. Quantized at FP8.
- Tools
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.20
- Output
- $0.70
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 483 tokens
- Longer than 48% of 468 models
Side by side
DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| DeepSeek V3.1 ThinkingDeepSeekThis model | DeepSeek V3/Deepseek ChatDeepSeekRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Feb 27, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 65.54KBest | 8.19K |
| Average output | 483 tokens | 293 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.20 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $0.70 | $0.43Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 11.1 tok/s | 24.8 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 4.0 sBest | 4.3 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.9% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 13.5 | 16.0Best |
| Math Index | 89.7Best | 59.0 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat
Intelligence Index
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking13.5
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat16.0
DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: Better than 34% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 89.7Top
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 59.0
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 56.7%Top
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 45.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 14.3%Top
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 11.2%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 77.9%Top
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 75.1%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 85.1%Top
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 83.7%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 41.5%
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 49.0%Top
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 78.4%Top
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 59.3%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 89.7%Top
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 59.0%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 25.0%
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 32.6%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 37.4%
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 78.9%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 56.7%Top
- DeepSeek V3/Deepseek Chat: 45.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 11.1 tok/s
- Faster than 1% of 254 models
- Time to first token
- 4.0 s
- Quicker than 44% of 254 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 59.5%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1:thinking",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1:thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)DeepSeek
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