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Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Pixtral 12B

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Mistral Medium 3.1 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math

Pixtral 12B wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
Price Advantage
Pixtral 12B
Benchmark Advantage
Mistral Medium 3.1
Context Window
Mistral Medium 3.1
Speed
Mistral Medium 3.1

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureMistral Medium 3.1Pixtral 12B
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyMistral Medium 3.1Pixtral 12B
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorMistral AIMistral AI
ReleasedAug 2025Unknown

Mistral Medium 3.1 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Pixtral 12B Modalities

Input
Output

Frequently Asked Questions

Pixtral 12B has cheaper input pricing at $0.10/M tokens. Pixtral 12B has cheaper output pricing at $0.10/M tokens.
Mistral Medium 3.1 has a 131,072 token context window, while Pixtral 12B has a 128,000 token context window.
Mistral Medium 3.1 supports vision. Pixtral 12B supports vision.