Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 Small leads with 17.8% 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.
Gemma 3 4B was developed as a compact yet capable open-source model, designed to strike a balance between performance and resource efficiency. Built with 4 billion parameters and instruction tuning, it provides a practical option for applications requiring moderate capability with manageable computational costs.
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DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Gemma 3 4B
2025-03-12
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Gemma 3 4B
Gemma 3 4B
2024-08-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Gemma 3 4B
DeepInfra

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Gemma 3 4B

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Gemma 3 4B