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Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
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Winner summary
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct wins on 10/11 benchmarks
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct wins 10 of 11 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · language.
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Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
#104 by perf·no signal
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
#173 by perf·no signal
Best value
Pricing unknown
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
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no price
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
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no price
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Head to head
11 benchmarks · 2 models
Qwen2 VL 7B InstructDeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
BBH (HuggingFace)
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +30.6
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
35.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
5.3
GPQA
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +8.6
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
9.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
0.7
IFEval
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +8.2
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
46.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
37.8
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads by +2.1
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
19.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
22.0
MMLU-PRO
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +22.3
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
34.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
12.1
MUSR
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +13.1
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
13.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
0.5
JCommonsenseQA
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +25.4
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
87.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
62.4
JMMLU
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +18.5
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
56.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
37.8
JNLI
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +5.0
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
74.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
69.4
JSQuAD
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +9.7
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
89.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
80.2
LLM-JP · Overall
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +11.6
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
53.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
41.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct | DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 35.9 | 5.3 |
GPQA | 9.3 | 0.7 |
IFEval | 46.0 | 37.8 |
MATH Level 5 | 19.9 | 22.0 |
MMLU-PRO | 34.4 | 12.1 |
MUSR | 13.6 | 0.5 |
JCommonsenseQA | 87.8 | 62.4 |
JMMLU | 56.3 | 37.8 |
JNLI | 74.4 | 69.4 |
JSQuAD | 89.9 | 80.2 |
LLM-JP · Overall | 53.0 | 41.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | — | — | — | — |