Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Pixtral-12B leads with 13.0% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 191.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $17.70 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Pixtral-12B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 69.4% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (86.5%), TAU-bench Retail (80.5%), GPQA (75.4%). It supports a 328K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 4 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
Mistral AI
Pixtral-12B is a multimodal language model developed by Mistral AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 66.8% across 12 benchmarks. It excels particularly in DocVQA (90.7%), ChartQA (81.8%), VQAv2 (78.6%). It supports a 136K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2024, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.
8 months newer
Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4
Pixtral-12B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 19 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4
Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval
Claude Sonnet 4
Pixtral-12B
Claude Sonnet 4
Pixtral-12B
Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI