Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 Small supports multimodal inputs. 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.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Kimi K2, designed to follow user instructions reliably across diverse tasks. Built to serve general-purpose conversational and task-completion applications, it provides Moonshot's accessible interface for language AI.
7 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Kimi K2 Instruct
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Kimi K2 Instruct
Novita

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Kimi K2 Instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Kimi K2 Instruct