Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Pixtral-12B offers 72.2K more tokens in context window than Gemma 3n E4B Instructed. Pixtral-12B is $59.70 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Gemma 3N E4B IT was created as the instruction-tuned version of Gemma 3N E4B, designed to combine improved capability with edge optimization. Built for applications requiring both responsive instruction-following and edge-friendly efficiency, it serves as a stronger option for on-device AI assistants.
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.
9 months newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Gemma 3n E4B Instructed
2025-06-26
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Gemma 3n E4B Instructed

Pixtral-12B
Gemma 3n E4B Instructed
2024-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

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