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Pixtral

Mistral AI announced Pixtral 12B as a natively multimodal model for image and text understanding with a 128K context window.

Company
Mistral AI
Primary category
AI Image Tools, AI Open-Weight Models
Best for
Developers building document understanding, chart reasoning, multimodal assistants, and local or hosted vision-language workflows.
Pricing
Open model access and platform/API use; exact costs depend on self-hosting or Mistral platform usage.
Free plan
yes
API
yes
Open source/open weight
yes
Linked launches
1
Latest launch date
September 17, 2024
Last verified
2026-06-08

Verification & Sources

Status
Verified profile
Source links
1
Freshness
Verified June 8, 2026
Last verified
June 8, 2026
Last updated
June 7, 2026

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Mistral AI announced Pixtral 12B as a natively multimodal model for image and text understanding with a 128K context window.

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Announcing Pixtral 12B

Mistral AI announced Pixtral 12B as a natively multimodal model for image and text understanding with a 128K context window.

Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
Clear use caseBeginner-friendlyCreator-friendlyBusiness-friendly
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Useful for tracking open multimodal model progress before the 2025 wave of stronger vision models.