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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B vs Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
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Winner summary
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct wins on 9/11 benchmarks
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct wins 9 of 11 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · language.
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Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
#175 by perf·no signal
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
#145 by perf·#2 by attention
Best value
Pricing unknown
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
n/a
no price
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
11 benchmarks · 2 models
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8BQwen2 VL 7B Instruct
BBH (HuggingFace)
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +0.1
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
35.8
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
35.9
GPQA
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +7.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
2.0
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
9.3
IFEval
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +2.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
43.4
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
46.0
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads by +10.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
30.7
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
19.9
MMLU-PRO
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads by +7.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
41.6
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
34.4
MUSR
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +0.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
13.3
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
13.6
JCommonsenseQA
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +25.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
62.4
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
87.8
JMMLU
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +18.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
37.8
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
56.3
JNLI
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +5.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
69.4
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
74.4
JSQuAD
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +9.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
80.2
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
89.9
LLM-JP · Overall
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct leads by +11.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
41.4
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct
53.0
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 35.8 | 35.9 |
GPQA | 2.0 | 9.3 |
IFEval | 43.4 | 46.0 |
MATH Level 5 | 30.7 | 19.9 |
MMLU-PRO | 41.6 | 34.4 |
MUSR | 13.3 | 13.6 |
JCommonsenseQA | 62.4 | 87.8 |
JMMLU | 37.8 | 56.3 |
JNLI | 69.4 | 74.4 |
JSQuAD | 80.2 | 89.9 |
LLM-JP · Overall | 41.4 | 53.0 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
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