DeepSeek R&D Coding Benchmark
Coding agents complete 30 tasks taken from DeepSeek internal R&D work in PyTorch, CUDA, Rust and C++. Human-written rubrics score each task.
In-house DeepSeek evaluation. The tasks come from internal repositories and are not public.
- Level
- Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
- Scored
- Graded by people Human experts grade or compare the outputs.
- Answers
- Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
DeepSeek-V4-Pro leads with 67%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 67% | Apr 2026 | Model card |
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Labs report it only in system cards
We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.
One system card reports it
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Apr 2026 | | 67 | R&D Coding Benchmark, Pass Rate, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max, 30 internal tasks (Table 8) | Capabilities |
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