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: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
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.
Frequently asked questions
How much does DeepSeek VL 7B cost?
DeepSeek VL 7B is available at $0.05/1M input tokens through Replicate API.
When was DeepSeek VL 7B released?
DeepSeek VL 7B was released on 2024-03-15.
Which providers offer DeepSeek VL 7B?
DeepSeek VL 7B is available from 1 provider: Replicate API.
Cheapest of 1 route · Replicate API