Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs. DeepSeek-R1 is available on 5 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1 is a language model developed by DeepSeek. It supports a 262K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 5 API providers. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents DeepSeek's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is a multimodal language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 75.8% across 15 benchmarks. It excels particularly in DocVQAtest (96.5%), VCR_en_easy (91.9%), ChartQA (88.3%). As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2024, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 15 common benchmarks
DeepSeek-R1
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepInfra
DeepSeek
Fireworks
Together
ZeroEval
DeepSeek-R1
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
DeepSeek-R1
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct