Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct represents a further evolution of the Small model series, developed with continued refinements to instruction-following and task performance. Built to incorporate ongoing improvements, it provides the latest capabilities in Mistral's intermediate-scale offering.
Mistral AI
Pixtral Large was developed as a larger-scale multimodal model, designed to provide advanced vision-language understanding capabilities. Built to handle complex tasks requiring sophisticated analysis of visual and textual information, it represents Mistral's flagship offering for multimodal applications.
7 months newer

Pixtral Large
Mistral AI
2024-11-18

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-06-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Pixtral Large
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Pixtral Large
Mistral AI

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Pixtral Large

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

Pixtral Large