Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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.
xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
2 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17
Context window and performance specifications
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok-3 Mini
xAI

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok-3 Mini

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok-3 Mini