Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Pixtral-12B leads with 7.2% higher average benchmark score. Ministral 8B Instruct offers 119.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Both models have similar pricing. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Pixtral-12B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
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.
29 days newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Ministral 8B Instruct

Pixtral-12B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Ministral 8B Instruct

Pixtral-12B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

Pixtral-12B

Ministral 8B Instruct

Pixtral-12B

Ministral 8B Instruct

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI