Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 26.3% higher average benchmark score. Pixtral-12B offers 5.1K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Pixtral-12B is $1.35 cheaper per million tokens. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct 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-Next 80B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3-Next 80B, designed to combine large-scale mixture-of-experts architecture with reliable instruction-following. Built to demonstrate efficient deployment of capable models, it balances advanced performance with practical computational efficiency.
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Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Pixtral-12B

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Available providers and their performance metrics

Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI

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Pixtral-12B

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Pixtral-12B

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