Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 leads with 1.3% higher average benchmark score. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2 was developed as a vision-language model, designed to handle both visual and textual inputs for multimodal understanding tasks. Built to extend DeepSeek's capabilities beyond text-only processing, it enables applications requiring integrated analysis of images and language.
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.
Launched on the same date

DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 14 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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