Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads with 5.7% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct 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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.
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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct