Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp offers 93.2K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Both models have similar pricing. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp was introduced as an experimental release, designed to test new architectural innovations and training methodologies. Built to explore the boundaries of mixture-of-experts design, it serves as a research preview for techniques that may be incorporated into future stable releases.
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

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
DeepSeek
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

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

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
Novita
ZeroEval

Pixtral-12B

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Pixtral-12B

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI