Mistral: Pixtral 12B 2409
Pixtral 12B 2409 is a language model from Mistral released on Sep 1, 2024. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 128K token context window and up to 4K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
3 providers serve it, including Scaleway, Pioneer and GreenPT. The lowest input price is $0.15 per million tokens at Pioneer.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.20 / $0.20 per 1M
- Context
- 128K
- Max output
- 4K
- Released
- Sep 1, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Sep 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Pixtral 12B 2409 pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.20 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.20 / 1M tokens |
Pixtral 12B 2409 providers
3 providers serve it, including Scaleway, Pioneer and GreenPT. The lowest input price is $0.15 per million tokens at Pioneer. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scaleway | $0.20 | $0.20 | – | 128K | 4K |
| Pioneer | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 128K | 4K |
| GreenPT | $0.285 | $0.285 | – | 128K | 4K |
What Pixtral 12B 2409 costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Pixtral 12B 2409 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Temperature
temperature
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Pixtral 12B 2409 questions
How much does the Pixtral 12B 2409 API cost?
$0.20 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Pixtral 12B 2409?
128,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 4,096 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Pixtral 12B 2409?
3 providers serve it, including Scaleway, Pioneer and GreenPT. The lowest input price is $0.15 per million tokens at Pioneer. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Pixtral 12B 2409 support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Pixtral 12B 2409 open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Pixtral 12B 2409 released?
Sep 1, 2024, with training data up to Sep 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Pixtral 12B 2409?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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