Looks to be the ~same intelligence as gpt-oss-120B, but about 10x slower and 3x more expensive?
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v3-1-reasoning
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https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v3-1-reasoning
It's knowledge seems to be lacking even compared to gpt3.
No idea how you'd benchmark this though.
That is the point of these small models. Remove the bloat of obscure information (address that with RAG), leaving behind a core “reasoning” skeleton.