Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2-Tiny was developed as an ultra-efficient vision-language model, designed for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Built to enable multimodal AI on edge devices and mobile applications, it distills vision-language capabilities into a minimal footprint for widespread accessibility.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 Vision was developed as a multimodal variant of Phi-3.5, designed to understand and reason about both images and text. Built to extend the Phi family's efficiency into vision-language tasks, it enables compact multimodal AI for practical applications.
3 months newer

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

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct