pixtral-12b vs ministral-3b-2410

Pixtral-12B is a natively multimodal large language model with 12 billion parameters plus a 400 million parameter vision encoder, trained with interleaved image and text data. It achieves strong performance on multimodal tasks including instruction following, while maintaining state-of-the-art performance on text-only benchmarks without compromising key text capabilities. The model supports variable image sizes and can process multiple images within its 128K token context window.

Ministral/ministral-3b-2410 is described as the world’s best edge model, designed for robust performance in resource-constrained environments. It focuses on delivering high-quality outputs while keeping computational requirements low, making it ideal for edge deployments.