DeepSeekReleased on Dec 13, 2024

DeepSeek VL2 Small: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small 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

DeepSeek VL2 Small benchmarks

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DeepSeek VL2 Small Performance Across Datasets

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DeepSeek VL2 Small API

Available from the model provider

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

Read the official API documentation

DeepSeek VL2 Small latency

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

DeepSeek VL2 Small examples

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

DeepSeek VL2 Small license

DeepSeek VL2 Small is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has 16.0B parameters.

License
deepseek
Hosted access
Parameters
16.0B

DeepSeek VL2 Small resources

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

DeepSeek VL2 Small vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to DeepSeek VL2 Small are Phi-4-multimodal-instruct, Llama 3.2 90B Instruct, DeepSeek VL2. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like DeepSeek VL2 Small

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Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

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Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

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DeepSeek VL2

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Nova Lite

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Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

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Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

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FAQ

Common questions about DeepSeek VL2 Small.

When was DeepSeek VL2 Small released?

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

Is DeepSeek VL2 Small available via API?

Yes, DeepSeek VL2 Small is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details.

How big is DeepSeek VL2 Small?

DeepSeek VL2 Small has 16 billion parameters.

Who created DeepSeek VL2 Small?

DeepSeek VL2 Small was created by DeepSeek.

What is the license for DeepSeek VL2 Small?

DeepSeek VL2 Small is released under the deepseek license.

Is DeepSeek VL2 Small multimodal?

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

Where is the DeepSeek VL2 Small paper or technical report?

DeepSeek VL2 Small 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 Small against?

Common DeepSeek VL2 Small comparisons include DeepSeek VL2 Small vs Phi-4-multimodal-instruct, DeepSeek VL2 Small vs Llama 3.2 90B Instruct, DeepSeek VL2 Small vs DeepSeek VL2. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.