Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview leads with 1.1% higher average benchmark score. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
IBM
Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview was introduced as an experimental ultra-compact model, designed to demonstrate IBM's progress in efficient model development. Built to explore the boundaries of what small models can achieve for enterprise applications, it represents an early look at next-generation Granite capabilities.
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.
7 months newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview
IBM
2025-05-02
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Pixtral-12B

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Pixtral-12B