Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-2 mini leads with 7.8% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Grok-2 mini 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.
xAI
Grok 2 Mini was created as a more efficient variant of Grok 2, designed to provide strong capabilities with reduced computational requirements. Built to make Grok 2's advancements accessible to applications with tighter resource constraints, it balances performance with practical deployment needs.
4 months newer

Grok-2 mini
xAI
2024-08-13

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok-2 mini
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok-2 mini

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok-2 mini