Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 Small supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is available on 8 providers. 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.
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B was developed as Meta's largest open-source language model, designed to provide frontier-level capabilities with 405 billion parameters. Built to demonstrate that open-source models can match proprietary systems in capability, it enables researchers and developers to experiment with and deploy a powerful foundation model without licensing restrictions.
4 months newer

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Bedrock

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
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