Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct leads with 11.2% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen2.5 VL 32B 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
Qwen2.5-VL 32B was developed as a mid-sized vision-language model, designed to balance multimodal capability with practical deployment considerations. Built with 32 billion parameters for vision and language integration, it serves applications requiring strong visual understanding without flagship-scale resources.
2 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-02-28
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct