Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Maverick leads with 11.5% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick is available on 7 providers. Overall, Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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 4 Maverick was developed as a variant in Meta's fourth-generation language model family, designed to explore specialized capabilities and training approaches. Built to push the boundaries of open-source model development, it represents experimentation with advanced techniques in the Llama lineage.
3 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Llama 4 Maverick
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Llama 4 Maverick

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Llama 4 Maverick
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita
Sambanova
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