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 4 Heavy was created as a larger, more capable variant of Grok 4, designed to provide maximum reasoning depth and analytical capability. Built for the most demanding applications requiring sophisticated problem-solving, it represents xAI's flagship offering in the fourth generation.
6 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Grok-4 Heavy
xAI
2025-07-09
Grok-4 Heavy
2024-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok-4 Heavy

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Grok-4 Heavy