Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. DeepSeek VL2 offers 2.6K more tokens in context window than Phi-4-multimodal-instruct. Phi-4-multimodal-instruct is $4809.35 cheaper per million tokens. 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.
Microsoft
Phi-4 Multimodal was created to handle multiple input modalities including text, images, and potentially other formats. Built to extend Phi-4's efficiency into multimodal applications, it demonstrates that compact models can successfully integrate diverse information types.
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DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
Microsoft
2025-02-01
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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 9 common benchmarks

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Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
2024-06-01
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