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 was developed as a reasoning-focused language model, designed to combine chain-of-thought reasoning with reinforcement learning techniques. Built to excel at complex problem-solving through trial-and-error learning and deliberate analytical processes, it demonstrates the power of efficient training methods in open-source model development.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.
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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
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