Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3 leads with 22.0% higher average benchmark score. DeepSeek-V3 offers 126.0K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $1.07 cheaper per million tokens. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Overall, DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 was introduced as a major architectural advancement, developed with 671B mixture-of-experts parameters and trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. Built to be three times faster than V2 while maintaining open-source availability, it demonstrates competitive performance against frontier closed-source models and represents a significant leap in efficient large-scale model design.
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.
3 months newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Pixtral-12B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

DeepSeek-V3

Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics

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DeepSeek

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Pixtral-12B

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Mistral AI