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DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking

Added Jan 1, 2024Open weights

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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

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ProviderDeepSeekQwen
Discovery tierOpen weightsOpen weights
AddedJan 1, 2024Mar 10, 2026
Limits
Context window128K262.14KBest
Max output65.54K65.54K
Average output483 tokens1.4K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.20$0.05Best
Output$0.70$0.15Best
Performance
Throughput11.1 tok/s—
Time to first token4.0 s—
Request success (24h)100.0%Best99.8%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index13.5Best13.3
Coding Index—23.5
Math Index89.7—
Capabilities
ReasoningNoYes
ToolsYesYes
VisionNoYes
Video inputNoYes
Reasoning effort——

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking
  • Qwen3.5 9B

Intelligence Index

  • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking13.5
  • Qwen3.5 9B13.3

DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: Better than 34% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: —
    • Qwen3.5 9B: 23.5

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 89.7
    • Qwen3.5 9B: —

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 56.7%Top
    • Qwen3.5 9B: 46.0%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 14.3%Top
    • Qwen3.5 9B: 9.4%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 77.9%
    • Qwen3.5 9B: 78.6%Top

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 85.1%
    • Qwen3.5 9B: —

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 41.5%Top
    • Qwen3.5 9B: 37.8%

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 78.4%
    • Qwen3.5 9B: —

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 89.7%
    • Qwen3.5 9B: —

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 25.0%Top
    • Qwen3.5 9B: 18.2%

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 37.4%
    • Qwen3.5 9B: 85.1%Top

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • DeepSeek V3.1 Thinking: 56.7%Top
    • Qwen3.5 9B: 46.0%

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.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 100.0%
  • 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.

Read the quickstart
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)

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