Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Nemotron Nano 9B v2 leads with 29.0% higher average benchmark score. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
NVIDIA
Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is a language model developed by NVIDIA. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 77.0% across 6 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MATH-500 (97.8%), IFEval (90.3%), AIME 2025 (72.1%). It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents NVIDIA's latest advancement in AI technology.
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.
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Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Nemotron Nano 9B v2
NVIDIA
2025-08-18
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Pixtral-12B
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
2024-09
Available providers and their performance metrics

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Pixtral-12B

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Pixtral-12B