Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs Pixtral 12B

GPT-5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#47); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

48.8

Rank #47 Confirmed

Pixtral 12B Mistral AI

30.8

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GPT-5.1 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 GPT-5.1 leads 44.0 to 23.4.
  • Pixtral 12B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.1.
  • GPT-5.1 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and Pixtral 12B specifications
GPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
ProviderOpenAIMistral AI
Noometry Index48.830.8
Released2025-11-132024-09-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K128K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.15
Results tracked632

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 46.9 (#59), Pixtral 12B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
SWE-bench Verified68%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1395—
SciCode43.3%—
GSO13.7%—
WeirdML60.8%—
LiveBench Coding72.5%—
LMArena Coding1454—
ALE-Bench1,192—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 32.5 (#55), Pixtral 12B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
LMArena Search1199—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 39.9 (#50), Pixtral 12B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
ARC-AGI-217.6%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
ARC-AGI-172.8%—
CritPt4.9%—
Chess Puzzles32%—
EnigmaEval11.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning95.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1457—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench90.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis72.1%—
LMCA43.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index149.66—
ForecastBench58.1—
LiveBench78.8%—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 50.3 (#45), Pixtral 12B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math94.5%—
LMArena Math1446—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 50.5 (#65), Pixtral 12B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
GPQA Diamond87.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—
LMArena Expert1470—

Multimodal GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 44.0 (#17), Pixtral 12B: 23.4 (#122)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
LMArena Vision12501008
GeoBench—37%
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 54.0 (#51), Pixtral 12B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1495—
LMArena French1451—
LMArena German1439—
LMArena Japanese1453—
LMArena Korean1401—
LMArena Russian1435—
LMArena Spanish1430—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 84.0 (#1), Pixtral 12B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%—
IFEval93.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1442—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Pixtral 12B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1448—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 64.7 (#53), Pixtral 12B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Pixtral 12B
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1427—
WildBench86.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1449—
LiveBench Language80.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than Pixtral 12B?

GPT-5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#47); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.1 or Pixtral 12B?

Pixtral 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GPT-5.1 lists at $1.25 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.1 does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Pixtral 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.

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