Pixtral 12B

MistralMCP Tool Call

mistral/pixtral-12bOpen Weights

Mistral vision-language model for image understanding and multimodal chat

Benchmark Pricing$0.15 / 1M in$0.15 / 1M out

Context: 128,000 tokens•Max Output: 128,000 tokens•Knowledge: 2024-09•Released: 2024-09-11

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window128,000128K tokens

Max Output128,000128K tokens

LicenseOpen SourceSelf-hostable

Input Modalities

TextVision

Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)

Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Pixtral 12B natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 128,000 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Pixtral 12B via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.MISTRAL_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "mistral/pixtral-12b",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);