Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Llama 3.2 11B Instruct offers 119.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Both models have similar pricing. Llama 3.2 11B Instruct is available on 6 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 3.2 11B was introduced as a mid-sized variant in the Llama 3.2 family, designed to offer enhanced capabilities while maintaining efficiency. Built to provide a balanced option for applications requiring more than lightweight models but less than flagship sizes, it serves diverse use cases in the open-source community.
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.
8 days newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Pixtral-12B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Pixtral-12B
Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
2023-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
Bedrock
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Sambanova

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Pixtral-12B

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Pixtral-12B
Together

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI