DeepSeek VL 7B
DeepSeek VL 7B is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- DeepSeek VL
- Released
- 2024-03-15
- Parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- DeepSeek LicenseCommercial use allowed
- Training
- finetuned
- Fine-tuning
- base
Cheapest of 1 route · Replicate API
About
DeepSeek-VL 7B is an open-source vision-language model engineered for robust real-world applications. With its general multimodal understanding capabilities, it can process logical diagrams, web pages, formulas, scientific literature, natural images, and complex scenarios involving embodied intelligence. The model features a hybrid vision encoder that integrates SigLIP-L and SAM-B, allowing it to handle high-resolution (1024 x 1024) image inputs. Built on the DeepSeek-LLM-7b-base foundation, it is pre-trained on roughly 2 trillion text tokens and further trained on approximately 400 billion vision-language tokens. A standout variant, DeepSeek-VL-7b-chat, is specially optimized for conversational tasks, enhancing both performance and user experience by addressing the limitations of existing open-source multimodal models.
DeepSeek VL 7B is an open-weight model in the DeepSeek VL family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through Replicate API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.05 input and $0.25 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DeepSeek VL 7B yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate API | $0.050 | $0.250 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 1 route · Replicate API