Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 offers 2.6K more tokens in context window than Llama 3.1 405B Instruct. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is $4807.72 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek VL2 supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is available on 8 providers. 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.
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B was developed as Meta's largest open-source language model, designed to provide frontier-level capabilities with 405 billion parameters. Built to demonstrate that open-source models can match proprietary systems in capability, it enables researchers and developers to experiment with and deploy a powerful foundation model without licensing restrictions.
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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
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