Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 leads with 2.6% higher average benchmark score. DeepSeek VL2 offers 122.4K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $4809.20 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2 was developed as a vision-language model, designed to handle both visual and textual inputs for multimodal understanding tasks. Built to extend DeepSeek's capabilities beyond text-only processing, it enables applications requiring integrated analysis of images and language.
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.
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Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

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Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics

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