Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.5 leads with 20.3% higher average benchmark score. Pixtral-12B offers 4.1K more tokens in context window than GPT-4.5. Pixtral-12B is $224.70 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, GPT-4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4.5 was developed as an intermediate advancement between GPT-4 and GPT-5, designed to incorporate incremental improvements in reasoning, factuality, and instruction-following. Built to bridge generational capabilities while maintaining compatibility with existing applications, it represents a refinement of the GPT-4 architecture with enhanced performance characteristics.
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.
5 months newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27
Cost per million tokens (USD)

GPT-4.5

Pixtral-12B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

GPT-4.5

Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4.5
OpenAI

Pixtral-12B

GPT-4.5

Pixtral-12B

GPT-4.5

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI