Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet leads with 1.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Sonnet offers 263.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $17.70 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet was introduced as the balanced middle tier of the Claude 3 family, offering a combination of strong capabilities and operational speed. Designed to provide an optimal tradeoff between intelligence and performance for everyday tasks, it served as a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise and consumer applications.
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 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-02-29

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

Claude 3 Sonnet

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

Claude 3 Sonnet

Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Sonnet

Pixtral-12B

Claude 3 Sonnet

Pixtral-12B

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI