Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Opus leads with 14.2% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 263.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $89.70 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Overall, Claude 3 Opus is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Mistral AI
Pixtral 12B was introduced as Mistral's multimodal vision-language model, designed to understand and reason about both images and text. Built with 12 billion parameters for integrated visual and textual processing, it extends Mistral's capabilities into multimodal applications.
6 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Pixtral-12B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Pixtral-12B

Claude 3 Opus

Pixtral-12B

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI