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.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 MoE was created using a mixture-of-experts architecture, designed to provide enhanced capabilities while maintaining efficiency through sparse activation. Built to combine the benefits of larger models with practical computational requirements, it represents Microsoft's exploration of efficient scaling techniques.
3 months newer

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Microsoft
2024-08-23

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

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct