Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Pixtral-12B leads with 10.8% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 30B A3B offers 119.8K more tokens in context window than Pixtral-12B. Both models have similar pricing. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Overall, Pixtral-12B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Pixtral-12B is a multimodal language model developed by Mistral AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 66.8% across 12 benchmarks. It excels particularly in DocVQA (90.7%), ChartQA (81.8%), VQAv2 (78.6%). It supports a 136K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2024, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 30B A3B is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.3% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in Arena Hard (91.0%), AIME 2024 (80.4%), LiveBench (74.3%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 3 API providers. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
7 months newer
Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17
Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Pixtral-12B
Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 20 common benchmarks
Pixtral-12B
Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics
Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
Qwen3 30B A3B
Pixtral-12B
Qwen3 30B A3B
Pixtral-12B
Qwen3 30B A3B
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