Developers discovered three new model identifiers in DeepSeek's official Harness repository on GitHub: deepseek-v5, deepseek-v5-open, and deepseek-v5-next. Currently, DeepSeek has not announced the V5 model, and these entries are test placeholders in the code, not available models.
Upon checking the repository, it was determined that these identifiers are located in a test file for the DeepSeek account provider, specifically in the file packages/llm/llm-deepseek-account/tests/provider.spec.ts, on lines 154–156, next to the existing deepseek-v4-pro entry. The repository history shows they were added in a commit from September 24th, which moved the DeepSeek account model directory into the official list of models.
The test scenario checks how the client filters models by required version: the v5-open entry requires a minimum client version of 0.0.1, while v5-next requires 99.0.0-alpha.1, and the test expects only the flash and v5-open models to appear in the list. This indicates the possibility of switching to a new model from the Harness server side, either for all clients or only for those who have updated, without needing a new release. However, this does not confirm the existence of the V5 model or its release timeline, and some developers consider these names merely test placeholders. As of October 28th, DeepSeek has made no announcements, model cards, or API identifiers for the V5 series.
The current model lineup includes V4-Pro and V4.1-Flash; the latter was released in September with a new architecture while retaining the V4 name.
In the same week, a new benchmarking result was presented for the current model. Artificial Analysis released Intelligence Index v5, which is the largest update since the V4 release in January, with 60% of the weight now based on closed test datasets or hidden answers. Coding accounts for 25% of the index, and of these 15 points, FrontierCode 2.0 from Cognition accounts for the evaluation of code changes in 132 real open-source tasks to see if they would approve a pull request merge.
On the FrontierCode 2.0 platform, the DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 model scored 28% at maximum effort, which is the highest score among models with released weights. Kimi K3.1 Pro achieved 25.5%, but its full weights are not yet available. Gemini 4 Argon reached 25.7%, and GPT-6 Luna scored 25.2%.
The overall index was less favorable. DeepSeek V4.1-Flash scored 32 points, tying with GLM-5.3, while the leader, Claude Opus 5.5, received 58 points. Artificial Analysis notes that the gap between the best open model with released weights and the leaderboard leader has increased from 3 points under v4.3 to 12 points under v5.

