Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 127.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $17.70 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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.
1 year newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Pixtral-12B
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval


Claude Sonnet 4.5

Pixtral-12B

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Pixtral-12B
Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI