Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
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
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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