Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 offers 2.6K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 235B A22B. Qwen3 235B A22B is $4809.30 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek VL2 supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 235B A22B 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
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
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Qwen3 235B A22B
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