Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 leads with 27.4% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 offers 11.3K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Pixtral-12B is $0.65 cheaper per million tokens. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 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 Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3 235B, designed to follow user instructions while leveraging the model's large-scale architecture. Built to provide advanced instruction-following with efficient mixture-of-experts design, it serves applications requiring both capability and practical deployment.
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Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Available providers and their performance metrics

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
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