Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 21.9% 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, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
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.
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 1 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