LLM Reference

DeepSeek VL 7B

Released
2024-03-15
Last refreshed
2026-04-15
Status
Researched 163d ago
Open WeightsCommercial use allowedMultimodalVision

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
Specifications
Released
2024-03-15
Parameters
7B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Open weights
License
DeepSeek LicenseCommercial use allowed
Training
finetuned
Fine-tuning
base
Created by

Advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.250
Input / 1M
$0.050

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.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Replicate API$0.050$0.250
Serverless

Capabilities

VisionMultimodal

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.