Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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.
xAI
Grok 4 Heavy was created as a larger, more capable variant of Grok 4, designed to provide maximum reasoning depth and analytical capability. Built for the most demanding applications requiring sophisticated problem-solving, it represents xAI's flagship offering in the fourth generation.
6 months newer

DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Grok-4 Heavy
xAI
2025-07-09
Context window and performance specifications
Grok-4 Heavy
2024-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2
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Grok-4 Heavy

DeepSeek VL2

Grok-4 Heavy

DeepSeek VL2

Grok-4 Heavy