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Pixtral 12B

Pixtral 12B is an AI model made by Mistral AI. Mistral AI released it on 11 September 2024. It is deprecated. It takes text, image and returns text.

Mistral AI

Pixtral 12B is an AI model made by Mistral AI. Mistral AI released it on 11 September 2024. It is deprecated. It takes text, image and returns text. Its context window is 128,000 tokens. Its weights are open. Its licence is Apache 2.0.

Released
11 September 2024 — docs.mistral.ai, read 16 October 2026
Status
Deprecated — docs.mistral.ai, read 16 October 2026
Takes
Text, Image — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Returns
Text — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Open weights
Yes — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Licence
Apache 2.0 — docs.mistral.ai, read 16 October 2026
Context window
128,000 tokens — docs.mistral.ai, read 16 October 2026
Longest answer
Not confirmed: The maker's pages do not print a standard maximum output-token limit for this model; example generation settings are not identified as the standard limit.
Knowledge cutoff
Not confirmed: The maker's model page, announcement, and model card do not print a knowledge-cutoff date.
API price, input
Not confirmed: The current Mistral API pricing page does not list a standard input price for Pixtral 12B.
API price, output
Not confirmed: The current Mistral API pricing page does not list a standard output price for Pixtral 12B.
Where
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: api, weights and api, app, weights
Parameters
Not confirmed: The maker prints separate figures for the 12B multimodal decoder and the 400M vision encoder, but does not print one combined parameter count; combining them would require calculating a value the page does not state.
Model card
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Pixtral-12B-Base-2409/blob/845d26d58ae88e30a2d3e5c172baa7916338e009/README.md and https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-12b

Questions

When was Pixtral 12B released?

Mistral AI released Pixtral 12B on 11 September 2024.

Is Pixtral 12B still available?

It is deprecated: Mistral AI has announced the date it will retire it.

What is the context window of Pixtral 12B?

The context window of Pixtral 12B is 128,000 tokens, as Mistral AI prints it.

Are the weights of Pixtral 12B open?

Yes: Mistral AI publishes the weights of Pixtral 12B for download.

What is the licence of Pixtral 12B?

The licence of Pixtral 12B is Apache 2.0, as Mistral AI names it.

What does Pixtral 12B take and return?

Pixtral 12B takes text, image and returns text.

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Sources

  1. Pixtral 12B - Mistral AI | Mistral Docs (read 16 October 2026)
  2. [Deprecated] Pixtral 12B | Mistral AI (read 16 October 2026)
  3. API pricing | Mistral Docs (read 16 October 2026)
  4. Model Card for Pixtral-12B-Base-2409 (read 16 October 2026)
  5. Model lifecycle policy | Mistral Docs (read 16 October 2026)

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