Mistral AI · Released Sep 1, 2024Pixtral 12B
Mistral vision-language model for image understanding and multimodal chat.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.15per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.15per 1M tokens
- Context
- 128K128K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.15per million tokens
- Output
- $0.15per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.15cheaper than 83% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.375 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $4.50 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $45.00 |
Official Mistral API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Pixtral 12B yet.
The details
- Lab
- Mistral AI
- Released
- Sep 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Sep 2024
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- 128,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
pixtral-12bon Mistral- Availability
- 4 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Pixtral 12B
How much does Pixtral 12B cost?
Pixtral 12B costs $0.15 input / $0.15 output per million tokens (official Mistral API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.15 per million tokens, cheaper than 83% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Pixtral 12B?
Pixtral 12B accepts up to 128,000 tokens per request and can write up to 128,000 tokens in one response.
How good is Pixtral 12B?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Pixtral 12B yet.
Is Pixtral 12B open source?
Yes. Mistral AI publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Pixtral 12B support?
Pixtral 12B accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Pixtral 12B released?
Mistral AI released Pixtral 12B on Sep 1, 2024. Its training data runs to Sep 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Pixtral 12B?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Llama-3.2-3B (Meta, $0.10 / $0.335), solar-mini (Upstage, $0.15 / $0.15), Phi-4-mini (Microsoft, $0.075 / $0.30) and Command R (Cohere, $0.15 / $0.60).