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GenAI Temperature

OpenAI (GPT-4o / GPT-4.1 / GPT-5 family)

Use Case Recommended Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0 – 0.2
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 0.2 – 0.5
General Conversation 0.7 – 1.0
Translation 0.3 – 0.7
Creative Writing / Poetry 1.0 – 1.5

Anthropic (Claude 3 / Claude 4 family)

Use Case Recommended Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0 – 0.2
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 0.2 – 0.4
General Conversation 0.5 – 0.8
Translation 0.2 – 0.5
Creative Writing / Poetry 0.8 – 1.2

Google Gemini (Gemini 1.5 / 2.x family)

Use Case Recommended Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0 – 0.3
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 0.2 – 0.5
General Conversation 0.6 – 0.9
Translation 0.2 – 0.6
Creative Writing / Poetry 0.9 – 1.3

DeepSeek – Recommended Temperature Settings

Use Case Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 1.0
General Conversation 1.3
Translation 1.3
Creative Writing / Poetry 1.5

xAI Grok (Grok-1 / Grok-1.5 / Grok-2 family)

Use Case Recommended Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0 – 0.2
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 0.2 – 0.5
General Conversation 0.6 – 1.0
Translation 0.3 – 0.7
Creative Writing / Poetry 0.9 – 1.4

Meta (Llama 3 / Llama 3.1 / Llama 3.2 family)

Use Case Recommended Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0 – 0.2
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 0.2 – 0.4
General Conversation 0.6 – 0.9
Translation 0.2 – 0.6
Creative Writing / Poetry 0.8 – 1.3

Mistral (Mistral Large / Mixtral / Codestral family)

Use Case Recommended Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0 – 0.2
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 0.2 – 0.4
General Conversation 0.6 – 0.9
Translation 0.2 – 0.6
Creative Writing / Poetry 0.9 – 1.3

Cohere (Command R / Command R+ family)

Use Case Recommended Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0 – 0.2
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 0.2 – 0.5
General Conversation 0.6 – 0.9
Translation 0.2 – 0.6
Creative Writing / Poetry 0.9 – 1.4

Alibaba (Qwen 2 / Qwen 2.5 family)

Use Case Recommended Temperature
Coding / Math 0.0 – 0.2
Data Cleaning / Data Analysis 0.2 – 0.4
General Conversation 0.6 – 0.9
Translation 0.2 – 0.6
Creative Writing / Poetry 0.9 – 1.3

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