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.
NVIDIA
Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is a language model developed by NVIDIA. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 77.0% across 6 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MATH-500 (97.8%), IFEval (90.3%), AIME 2025 (72.1%). It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents NVIDIA's latest advancement in AI technology.
8 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Nemotron Nano 9B v2
NVIDIA
2025-08-18
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
2024-09
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Nemotron Nano 9B v2