Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Maverick leads with 13.0% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick offers 1.9M more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Both models have similar pricing. Llama 4 Maverick is available on 7 providers. Overall, Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 4 Maverick was developed as a variant in Meta's fourth-generation language model family, designed to explore specialized capabilities and training approaches. Built to push the boundaries of open-source model development, it represents experimentation with advanced techniques in the Llama lineage.
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.
6 months newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 4 Maverick

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

Llama 4 Maverick

Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Maverick

Pixtral-12B

Llama 4 Maverick

Pixtral-12B
Sambanova
Together

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI