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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 32B was created as a larger variant in the Qwen 2.5 family, designed to deliver enhanced capabilities with 32 billion parameters. Built to serve applications requiring stronger reasoning and generation quality, it represents a powerful option for demanding language understanding tasks.
2 months newer

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

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

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct