Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 Small supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. 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
Qwen3 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
4 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen3 30B A3B

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
Novita