Mistral AI model product
A 12B parameter multimodal model with a 400M parameter vision encoder, capable of understanding both natural images and documents. Excels at multimodal tasks while maintaining strong text-only performance. Supports variable image sizes and multiple images in context.
Updated Aug 10, 2026. Default version: Pixtral-12B
Structured fields from the published default version.
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Published benchmark records for the scored version Pixtral-12B.
Preference and agent-evaluation signals from published Arena datasets.
| vision | chinese | 99 | 945.5 | 335 | N/A | |
| vision style control | chinese | 103 | 964.1 | 335 | N/A | |
| vision | overall | 124 | 1008.7 | 7,511 | N/A | |
| vision | english | 125 | 1027.9 | 4,090 | N/A | |
| vision style control | english | 127 | 1042.4 | 4,090 | N/A | |
| vision style control | overall | 128 | 1025.6 | 7,511 | N/A |
Official vendor API PAYG pricing is summarized first. The table then lists individual provider offerings without treating their minimum as the official price.
| Mistral | pixtral-12b | global | $0.15 | $0.15 | 128K | |
| Scaleway | pixtral-12b-2409 | global | $0.20 | $0.20 | 128K | |
| Cortecs | pixtral-12b-2409 | global | $0.223 | $0.223 | 128K | |
| GreenPT | pixtral-12b-2409 | global | $0.285 | $0.285 | 128K |
Official prices use only the vendor's configured official Provider and positive standard USD PAYG rates. Third-party offers remain explicitly labeled.
All published versions linked to this unique model. The score columns identify the version used by the current overall ranking.
| Pixtral-12B | 15.2 | 12.4B | 128K | 128K | Yes | Apache 2.0 |
A concise description based on the published model registry.
A 12B parameter multimodal model with a 400M parameter vision encoder, capable of understanding both natural images and documents. Excels at multimodal tasks while maintaining strong text-only performance. Supports variable image sizes and multiple images in context.
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Data snapshot: 2026-08-07. Editorial model content is not available in the backend.
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Common questions about Pixtral 12B.
Pixtral 12B's default version was released on Sep 17, 2024.
Pixtral 12B's official API price is $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens via Mistral. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.20 input and $0.20 output via Scaleway.
Pixtral 12B is published under Mistral AI in the model registry.
The default version has a 128K token context window.
Yes. The default version is marked as open weight under Apache 2.0.
4 published provider offerings are linked to the default version.
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