Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 Small supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2-Small was created as a compact vision-language variant, designed to bring multimodal capabilities to applications with limited computational resources. Built to provide visual and textual understanding in a more efficient package, it serves use cases requiring practical deployment of vision-language AI.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 was introduced as a major architectural advancement, developed with 671B mixture-of-experts parameters and trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. Built to be three times faster than V2 while maintaining open-source availability, it demonstrates competitive performance against frontier closed-source models and represents a significant leap in efficient large-scale model design.
12 days newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek

DeepSeek VL2 Small

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek VL2 Small

DeepSeek-V3