Pixtral 12B is Mistral AI's language model with a 128K context window and up to 4K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.15 / 1M input and $0.15 / 1M output. A 12B-parameter multimodal LLM from Mistral supporting vision and tool-use, capable of processing both images and text for image-text-to-text tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDmistral-pixtral-12b
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorMistral AIMistral AI
Providers
Context Window128K tokens
Max Output4K tokens
Input ModalitiesImage
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters12B
Release Date · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text·
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities3/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill✓

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
IBM watsonx logo
IBM watsonx
watsonx/mistralai/pixtral-12b-2409
$0.35$0.35
Scaleway logo
Scaleway
scaleway/mistralai/pixtral-12b-2409
$0.2$0.2
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
vercel_ai_gateway/mistral/pixtral-12b
$0.15$0.15

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Pixtral 12B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 29 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NV16as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2532 GB$0.932/hr
Standard_NP10sAzureAMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)64 GB$1.65/hr
g6e.xlargeAWSL40S45 GB$1.86/hr
7 more instances can run Pixtral 12B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Pixtral Large (25.02)128K$2.00$6.00Deprecated
Pixtral 12B128K$0.150$0.150Current

Model IDs

huggingface-vlm-mistral-pixtral-12b-2409
mistral-pixtral-12b
mistral/pixtral-12b
mistral/pixtral-12b-2409
pixtral-12b-2409
scaleway/mistralai/pixtral-12b-2409
vercel_ai_gateway/mistral/pixtral-12b
watsonx/mistralai/pixtral-12b-2409