Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 offers 119.3K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is $4808.75 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek VL2 supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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