Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nova Lite leads with 1.8% higher average benchmark score. 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.
Amazon
Amazon Nova Lite was developed as a lightweight multimodal model, designed to provide efficient AI capabilities for text and image understanding. Built to serve cost-sensitive applications with quick response times, it represents Amazon's entry-level offering in the Nova family.
23 days newer

Nova Lite
Amazon
2024-11-20

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Nova Lite
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Nova Lite
Bedrock

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Nova Lite

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Nova Lite