Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 offers 2.6K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 30B A3B. Qwen3 30B A3B is $4809.10 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek VL2 supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 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 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
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DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
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DeepSeek VL2

Qwen3 30B A3B
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