Pixtral 12B benchmarks, pricing and specs
Pixtral 12B is a Mistral AI model released on September 17, 2024 that takes text and image input and produces text. It is now listed as a legacy model. Its price is not published and accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context.
- Context window
- 128K
Data verified August 6, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-12
Key facts
- Provider
- Mistral AI
- Model family
- Pixtral
- Release date
- September 17, 2024
- Status
- Legacy
- Access
- API and open weights
- API model id
- Not reported
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- Not reported
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- text
- Task families
- text, multimodal
- Declared capabilities
- reasoning
Pixtral 12B pricing
Independent benchmark results
Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. Mistral AI's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.
No independent benchmark has published a result for Pixtral 12B yet. It is still compared below on price, context and capabilities.
Strengths, cautions and best uses
Strengths
- Pixtral 12B records both API and open-weight access for text and image inputs and a published 128,000-token context window
Cautions
- This record is marked legacy; confirm current availability and migration requirements before adoption
Best for
- Historical private text-and-image evaluation
Alternatives to Pixtral 12B
The closest current textmodels by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.
DeepSeek-R1
- From DeepSeek
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
- From Alibaba Qwen
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 1.05M context window vs 128K
- From Google
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
- From Moonshot Kimi
Pixtral 12B FAQ
What is the context window of Pixtral 12B?
Pixtral 12B accepts up to 128,000 tokens of context. That ranks #40 of 45 current text models by context length.
Is Pixtral 12B open source or API only?
Pixtral 12B is available both through Mistral AI's API and as open weights you can run yourself.
What are the best alternatives to Pixtral 12B?
The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are DeepSeek-R1 (from DeepSeek), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct (from Alibaba Qwen), Gemini 2.5 Pro (1.05M context window vs 128K) and Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct (from Moonshot Kimi).
Sources
- Announcing Pixtral 12B · Mistral AI · official · verified August 6, 2026
- Mistral AI pricing · Mistral AI · official · verified August 6, 2026
Cite this page
Van Data Team. "Pixtral 12B Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-12. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/pixtral-12b
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