// COMPARISON

DeepSeek-R1-Zero

A head-to-head benchmark comparison of DeepSeek-R1-Zero across 4 evaluations.

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Jan 2025

We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (.

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Benchmark comparison

Benchmark DeepSeek-R1-Zero
code
LiveCodeBench v5 50%
math
AIME 2024 71%
MATH-500 95.9%
reasoning
GPQA Diamond 73.3%

Best result per row highlighted in cyan. Each benchmark links to its definition and sources; each model links to its full scorecard.

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DeepSeek-R1-Zero has the strongest result on LiveCodeBench v5 among the models compared here. See the code-category rows in the table for the full picture.

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This comparison covers 4 benchmarks on which at least one of the selected models has a published score.

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Scores are aggregated from official model cards, technical reports and standard public evaluations, and link back to each benchmark's source. They are updated as new results are published.

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