Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3.1 offers 191.5K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $0.97 cheaper per million tokens. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.1 was developed as an incremental advancement over DeepSeek-V3, designed to refine the mixture-of-experts architecture with improved training techniques. Built to enhance quality and efficiency while maintaining the open-source philosophy, it represents continued iteration on DeepSeek's flagship model line.
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-V3.1
DeepSeek
2025-01-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)

DeepSeek-V3.1

Pixtral-12B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepInfra
Novita

Pixtral-12B

DeepSeek-V3.1

Pixtral-12B

DeepSeek-V3.1

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI