LlamaIndex vs DeepSeek: Which Is Better in 2026
Last week, I watched a startup burn through $4,000 in cloud compute credits over three days trying to build a legal document Q&A system. Their mistake? They were using DeepSeek V3.2 to process and reason over 200-page contracts one by one, instead of using a framework to retrieve the right chunks first. They had the right model for reasoning, but the wrong architecture for the job.
This is the exact confusion that happens when you compare Llama
