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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Pixtral-12B
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Pixtral-12B leads with 5.7% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 127.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $17.70 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Pixtral-12B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 75.8% across 9 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (89.1%), AIME 2025 (87.0%), TAU-bench Retail (86.2%). It supports a 264K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 2 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.
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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.
1 year newer
Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Pixtral-12B
Input:$0.15
Output:$0.15($17.70 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 21 common benchmarks
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Average Score:32.5%
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Pixtral-12B
Average Score:38.2%(+5.7%)
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
2 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Avg Score:32.5%
Providers:2
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Pixtral-12B
Avg Score:38.2%(+5.7%)
Providers:1