Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 4.6 vs Pixtral 12B

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4.6 xAI

56.9

Rank #21 Confirmed

Pixtral 12B Mistral AI

31.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Grok 4.6 scores higher in 1 category and Pixtral 12B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Grok 4.6 leads 43.6 to 23.9.
  • Pixtral 12B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Grok 4.6.
  • Grok 4.6 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4.6Pixtral 12B
ProviderxAIMistral AI
Noometry Index56.931.3
Released2026-08-122024-09-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window500K128K
Max output500K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$6$0.15
Results tracked492

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 58.5 (#16), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
DeepSWE67.5%—
FrontierCode48%—
CursorBench41.4%—
LMArena WebDev1617—
FrontierSWE25.3%—
SciCode56.5%—
WeirdML67.3%—
LMArena Coding1465—
ALE-Bench1,508—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#27), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
APEX-Agents65.3%—
GDP.pdf17.2%—
Vending-Bench 29,047—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 61.4 (#20), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
ARC-AGI-267.1%—
SimpleBench75.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)80%—
ARC-AGI-187.5%—
CritPt19.7%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
EBR-Bench30.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1447—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench97.3%—
LMCA48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.44—

Math Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 67.0 (#24), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%—
ProofBench51%—
LMArena Math1423—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#20), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified49.3%—
LMArena Expert1467—

Multimodal Grok 4.6 leads

Grok 4.6: 43.6 (#23), Pixtral 12B: 23.9 (#127)

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
LMArena Vision12631009
GeoBench—37%
Blueprint-Bench 233.2%—
Furniture Assembly40%—
LMArena Document1452—

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 53.0 (#74), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
LMArena Non-English1420—
LMArena Chinese1480—
LMArena French1461—
LMArena German1431—
LMArena Japanese1376—
LMArena Korean1397—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1404—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 75.4 (#63), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
LMArena Instruction Following1431—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 44.5 (#66), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
LMArena Longer Query1454—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4.6: 62.3 (#80), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkGrok 4.6Pixtral 12B
LMArena Text1428—
LMArena Creative Writing1428—
LMArena Multi-Turn1425—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Pixtral 12B?

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#21); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.6 or Pixtral 12B?

Pixtral 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Grok 4.6 lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.6 does, with 500K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4.6 and Pixtral 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 4.6 has 49 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.

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