Multimodal

DeepSeek VL2

Vision-language model for OCR, documents, charts, and visual Q&A.

Overview
VL2 is tuned for high-resolution visual understanding, including OCR and document analysis. It is ideal for extracting structured data from images and screenshots.
Best for: OCR, Document analysis, Chart interpretation
  • Dynamic slicing for high-resolution images.
  • Strong OCR and document understanding performance.
  • Vision-language reasoning with efficient inference.
Pricing
Transparent pricing for legacy models. V4 pricing will be announced at launch.
Images$0.02 / image
HD outputs are billed at 1.5x.
Full pricing
Research summary
Compiled from public research notes and internal summaries. Specifications may evolve ahead of official releases.

DeepSeek VL2 is a vision-language model built for OCR, document analysis, and high-resolution visual reasoning. It combines a strong vision encoder with a language backbone and uses dynamic tiling to preserve fine-grained details in large images.

Architecture notes describe a visual encoder + adapter pipeline feeding into a MoE language decoder, plus multi-head latent attention to reduce KV cache growth on long sequences. Reported variants emphasize a large total parameter count with a much smaller active set, helping keep inference efficient.

VL2 shines on screenshots, charts, and complex documents where text and layout matter. It is a strong companion to V3.1 for end-to-end doc pipelines and to Janus-Pro-7B for generation-heavy multimodal flows.

Focus areas
The traits to evaluate when choosing this model.
  • High-resolution OCR and document parsing.
  • Dynamic tiling for detailed visuals.
  • MoE efficiency with smaller active params.
  • Chart and screenshot reasoning.
  • Production document-processing pipelines.
Validate benchmarks and latency on your own prompts before committing a production rollout.