Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
o4-mini leads with 28.6% higher average benchmark score. Overall, o4-mini 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.
OpenAI
o4-mini was created as part of the next generation of OpenAI's reasoning models, designed to continue advancing the balance between analytical capability and operational efficiency. Built to bring cutting-edge reasoning techniques to applications requiring quick turnaround, it represents the evolution of compact reasoning-focused models.
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DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

o4-mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

o4-mini
o4-mini
2024-05-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

o4-mini
OpenAI

DeepSeek VL2 Small

o4-mini

DeepSeek VL2 Small

o4-mini