Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 235B A22B leads with 21.2% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 235B A22B offers 119.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Both models have similar pricing. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen3 235B A22B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
7 months newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI

Qwen3 235B A22B

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3 235B A22B

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3 235B A22B
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