DeepSeekReleased on Dec 13, 2024

DeepSeek VL2: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 is a language model from DeepSeek, released in December 2024, with multimodal input.

An advanced series of large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Vision-Language Models that significantly improves upon its predecessor, DeepSeek-VL. DeepSeek-VL2 demonstrates superior capabilities across various tasks, including but not limited to

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

DeepSeek VL2 benchmarks

Rankings

Quality Tracker

DeepSeek VL2 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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DeepSeek VL2 context window

Input and output token limits for DeepSeek VL2, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
129Ktokens
129Ktokens
194 pages of text
129K
8K128K1M

DeepSeek VL2 API

Available from the model provider

DeepSeek VL2 has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

DeepSeek VL2 latency

DeepSeek VL2 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

DeepSeek VL2 examples

Recent arena outputs from DeepSeek VL2, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

DeepSeek VL2 license

DeepSeek VL2 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has 27.0B parameters.

License
deepseek
Hosted access
Parameters
27.0B

DeepSeek VL2 resources

Official sources for DeepSeek VL2: api documentation, official playground, paper or system card, source repository.

DeepSeek VL2 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to DeepSeek VL2 are GPT-4o, Grok-2 mini, Nova Pro. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like DeepSeek VL2

Models ranked just above and below DeepSeek VL2 by LLM Stats score.

 

GPT-4o

Score pending
 

Grok-2 mini

Score pending
 

Nova Pro

Score pending
 

Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Score pending
 

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Score pending
 

Pixtral Large

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about DeepSeek VL2.

When was DeepSeek VL2 released?

DeepSeek VL2 was released on December 13, 2024 by DeepSeek. This is the official DeepSeek VL2 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

Is DeepSeek VL2 available via API?

Yes, DeepSeek VL2 is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is DeepSeek VL2?

DeepSeek VL2 has 27 billion parameters.

Who created DeepSeek VL2?

DeepSeek VL2 was created by DeepSeek.

What is the license for DeepSeek VL2?

DeepSeek VL2 is released under the deepseek license.

Is DeepSeek VL2 multimodal?

Yes, DeepSeek VL2 is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is DeepSeek VL2 latency?

DeepSeek VL2 p95 time to first token is 0.50 seconds via Replicate over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use DeepSeek VL2?

DeepSeek VL2 is available through 1 provider including Replicate.

Where is the DeepSeek VL2 paper or technical report?

DeepSeek VL2 has a paper or technical report available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.10302. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare DeepSeek VL2 against?

Common DeepSeek VL2 comparisons include DeepSeek VL2 vs GPT-4o, DeepSeek VL2 vs Grok-2 mini, DeepSeek VL2 vs Nova Pro. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.