Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking leads with 27.6% higher average benchmark score. Pixtral-12B offers 5.1K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. Pixtral-12B is $1.35 cheaper per million tokens. Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking 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 Thinking was created as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended analytical capabilities into the Qwen3-Next architecture. Built to handle complex problem-solving with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves applications requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
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Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
2024-09-17

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
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

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Pixtral-12B

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