Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads with 21.8% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite offers 855.6K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek VL2. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is $4809.00 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite was created as the most efficient option in the Gemini 2.5 family, designed to provide cutting-edge capabilities with minimal computational overhead. Built for applications where cost and latency are primary concerns, it extends advanced multimodal understanding to resource-conscious deployments.
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DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-06-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-01-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

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