Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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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 4 Fast is a multimodal language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.0% across 7 benchmarks. It excels particularly in SimpleQA (95.0%), HMMT 2025 (93.3%), AIME 2025 (92.0%). With a 2.0M token context window, it can handle extensive documents and complex multi-turn conversations. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
8 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Grok 4 Fast
xAI
2025-08-28
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok 4 Fast
xAI

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok 4 Fast

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok 4 Fast