Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
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 months newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Context window and performance specifications
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI

Magistral Small 2506

Pixtral-12B

Magistral Small 2506

Pixtral-12B