DeepSeek model product
DeepSeek-VL2 is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) vision-language model series from DeepSeek for visual question answering, optical character recognition, document, table, and chart understanding, and visual grounding.
Updated Sep 8, 2026. Default version: DeepSeek VL2 Tiny
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Benchmark scores for DeepSeek VL2 Tiny.
Benchmark | Score | Rank | Participants | Percentile | Evidence | Evaluated |
|---|
| BenchmarkMME | Score19.15% | Rank04 | Participants4 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMT-Bench | Score53.20% | Rank04 | Participants4 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkInfoVQA | Score66.10% | Rank07 | Participants10 | Percentile33.33% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkTextVQA | Score80.70% | Rank08 | Participants16 | Percentile53.33% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMBench | Score69.20% | Rank09 | Participants9 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMBench-V1.1 | Score68.30% | Rank20 | Participants20 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkChartQA | Score81.00% | Rank21 | Participants26 | Percentile20.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkDocVQA | Score88.90% | Rank22 | Participants28 | Percentile22.22% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkOCRBench | Score80.90% | Rank22 | Participants24 | Percentile8.70% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMStar | Score45.90% | Rank25 | Participants25 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkRealWorldQA | Score64.20% | Rank30 | Participants31 | Percentile3.33% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMathVista | Score53.60% | Rank33 | Participants39 | Percentile15.79% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkAI2D | Score71.60% | Rank34 | Participants34 | Percentile0.00% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| BenchmarkMMMU | Score40.70% | Rank63 | Participants64 | Percentile1.59% | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
Preference and agent-evaluation results for the default version.
The default version does not have a matching Arena result yet.
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The default version has no current input or output token prices.
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for DeepSeek VL2 Tiny. Runtime does not affect the capability score.
No provider-specific speed or latency record is linked to the default version yet.
Output Speed is generated output tokens received per second. Catalog latency is reported separately from observed provider TTFT.
Technical details for the model's default version.
Available versions of this model. The score column identifies the version used in the overall ranking.
Version | Released | LLMBoard | Parameters | Context | Max output | Open weights | License |
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| VersionDeepSeek VL2 | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters27B | Context129.3K | Max output129.3K | Open weightsYes | Licensedeepseek |
| VersionDeepSeek VL2 Small | Released | LLMBoardN/A | Parameters16B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsYes | Licensedeepseek |
| VersionDeepSeek VL2 Tiny | Released | LLMBoard0.00 | Parameters3B | ContextN/A | Max outputN/A | Open weightsYes | Licensedeepseek |
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Key information about DeepSeek-VL2 and its available data.
DeepSeek-VL2 is a series of large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Vision-Language Models from DeepSeek and a successor to DeepSeek-VL. It demonstrates capabilities in visual question answering, optical character recognition, document, table, and chart understanding, and visual grounding.
Data as of 2026-09-08.
Common questions about DeepSeek-VL2.
DeepSeek-VL2's default version was released on Dec 13, 2024.
No official standard PAYG price is currently available for DeepSeek-VL2.
DeepSeek-VL2 was created by DeepSeek.
A context window is not available for the default version.
Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under deepseek.
No provider offering is currently linked to the default version.