Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 Small leads with 6.5% higher average benchmark score. Overall, DeepSeek VL2 Small is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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-VL2-Tiny was developed as an ultra-efficient vision-language model, designed for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Built to enable multimodal AI on edge devices and mobile applications, it distills vision-language capabilities into a minimal footprint for widespread accessibility.
Launched on the same date

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Average performance across 14 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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