Pixtral 12B

Mistral

Mistral's lightweight vision-language model. Affordable image understanding with good performance.

Context Window: 32K tokens Released: 2024-10 Best For: Image understanding, visual QA, cost-efficient multimodal apps

Vision-language

Open weights

Low cost

Pixtral 12B Pricing

Token Type	Price per Million
Input tokens	$0.150
Output tokens	$0.150

Estimated Cost by Project Size

Realistic cost estimates for common coding scenarios. Assumes 30% cache hit rate where caching is available.

Scenario	Token Usage	Estimated Cost
Small Script (1K lines)	50K input / 30K output	<$0.01
Medium Feature (10K lines)	500K input / 200K output	$0.08
Large Project (50K lines)	2,500K input / 1,000K output	$0.41
Code Review (5K lines)	250K input / 25K output	$0.03

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How Does Pixtral 12B Compare?

Model	Input ($/M)	Medium Feature Cost
Pixtral 12B	$0.150	$0.08	selected
GPT-4o mini	$0.150	$0.18	Compare
Gemini 2.5 Flash	$0.150	$0.17	Compare
Mistral Nemo	$0.150	$0.08	Compare
Qwen 3 Turbo	$0.150	$0.17	Compare
DeepSeek Jiuge	$0.150	$0.17	Compare

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