Model comparison

Mistral Large vs Pixtral Large

Mistral Large and Pixtral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Large Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Pixtral Large Mistral AI

32.2

Rank #259 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 1 category and Pixtral Large in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large leads 40.7 to 32.9.
  • Both cost about the same: $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
  • Mistral Large accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Mistral Large and Pixtral Large specifications
Mistral LargePixtral Large
ProviderMistral AIMistral AI
Noometry Index31.932.2
Released2024-02-262024-11-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K128K
Max output16K128K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2
Output $ / M tokens$6$6
Results tracked513

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240), Pixtral Large: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
SciCode36.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct30%—
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
LMArena Coding1277—
BigCodeBench Complete38.3%—
ALE-Bench264.7—
HumanEval+62.2%—
MBPP+59.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89), Pixtral Large: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard38.4%—

Reasoning Pixtral Large leads

Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
SimpleBench22.5%—
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval—0.8%
LiveBench Reasoning43.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1257—
DTBench65.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis50.1%—
LMCA16.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.52—
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench48.4%—

Math Not comparable

Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291), Pixtral Large: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH28.1%—
LiveBench Math42.5%—
LMArena Math1262—
MATH Level 550.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230), Pixtral Large: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
GPQA Diamond51.3%—
MMLU-Pro59.9%—
Confabulations21.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate4.5%—
GPQA (HELM)43.5%—
LMArena Expert1232—
MMLU80%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Mistral Large: —, Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
LMArena Vision—1089

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219), Pixtral Large: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
LMArena Non-English1237—
LMArena Chinese1240—
LMArena French1325—
LMArena German1254—
LMArena Japanese1188—
LMArena Korean1202—
LMArena Russian1257—
LMArena Spanish1268—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191), Pixtral Large: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
LiveBench Instruction Following67.9%—
IFEval87.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1249—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199), Pixtral Large: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
LMArena Longer Query1261—

Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads

Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral LargePixtral Large
EQ-Bench Creative Writing985988
LMArena Text1266—
LMArena Creative Writing1243—
Short-Story Creative Writing69%—
WildBench80.1%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1260—
LiveBench Language39.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Large better than Pixtral Large?

Mistral Large and Pixtral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 32.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Large or Pixtral Large?

Pixtral Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Mistral Large lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Pixtral Large share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.

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