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Pixtral 12B vs Pixtral Large

A complete head-to-head: pricing, context window, benchmarks, modality coverage, and openness, with a programmatic verdict synthesized from the underlying data.

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Pixtral 12B specs · Pixtral Large specs
Verdict by category
  • PriceTie

    Neither model publishes per-token API pricing.

  • Context windowTie

    Both ship a 128K-token context window.

  • BenchmarksTie

    No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores.

  • ModalitiesTie

    Both handle text, vision.

  • OpennessTie

    Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

It's a genuine coin-flip between Pixtral 12B and Pixtral Large: 0 category wins each, with the rest tied. Neither model publishes per-token API pricing. Both ship a 128K-token context window.

No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores. Both target the same set of modalities (text, vision), so the deciding factors are price, context, and raw quality. Both ship open weights, self-host either one.

Pixtral Large is the newer of the two, released 2 months after Pixtral 12B, which usually means a more recent knowledge cutoff and updated safety post-training. Pixtral 12B is usually picked for vision and edge deployment workloads, while Pixtral Large sees more deployments in vision and ocr. If pricing matters more than every last benchmark point, run the numbers in the calculator below before committing.

Side-by-side specs

SpecPixtral 12BPixtral Large
ProviderMistralMistral
ReleasedSep 2024Nov 2024
Modalitiestext, visiontext, vision
Context window128K tokens128K tokens
Max output,,
Input · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Output · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Knowledge cutoff,,
Open weightsYes (Apache-2.0)Yes (Mistral Research License)
API availableYesYes

Pricing at scale

What you'd actually pay at typical workloads. Numbers come from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day, vs ,
  • Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day, vs ,
  • RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day, vs ,

Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates).

Price calculator

Estimated spend for the listed models at your usage. Numbers are derived from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Pixtral 12BPricing unavailable
  • Pixtral LargePricing unavailable

Benchmarks compared

Only sourced numbers. Where a benchmark is missing for one model we show the available value rather than fabricating the other.

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.
Pick Pixtral 12B if

Pixtral 12B fits when…

  • Apache-2.0
  • Vision in 12B size
  • Single-GPU
Pick Pixtral Large if

Pixtral Large fits when…

  • Strong document AI
  • Open weights
Don't want either?

Consider Mistral Large 2

Mistral's flagship API model, strong on code and reasoning, EU-friendly hosting.

See Mistral Large 2 specsPixtral 12B vs Mistral Large 2Pixtral Large vs Mistral Large 2

Frequently asked

  • Is Pixtral 12B or Pixtral Large cheaper?
    Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.
  • Which has the larger context window?
    Both Pixtral 12B and Pixtral Large ship a 128K-token context window.
  • Is Pixtral 12B or Pixtral Large better for coding?
    Both Pixtral 12B and Pixtral Large are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.
  • Are either of these models open source?
    Both ship with open weights. Pixtral 12B is licensed under Apache-2.0; Pixtral Large under Mistral Research License.
  • When were Pixtral 12B and Pixtral Large released?
    Pixtral 12B was released by Mistral on 2024-09-17. Pixtral Large was released by Mistral on 2024-11-18.
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