Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. 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-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
11 months newer

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Pixtral-12B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base