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Pixtral 12B deprecated

Mistral AI has deprecated Pixtral 12B, the text-and-image model released on 2024-09-01 with a 128k context window and 128k max output, according to a provider announcement tracked by models.dev. No retirement date has been announced for the model, which is also referenced as pixtral-12b and mistral/pixtral-12b. The deprecation flags the model as being on a clock for developers whose code still calls it.

read1 min views1 publishedOct 8, 2026
Pixtral 12B deprecated
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MS◑ Deprecating

Mistral AI · pixtral-12b

Released2024-09-01 Retiresno announced date

pixtraltext+image128k context128k max out

also matches:

`pixtral-12b`` mistral/pixtral-12b`
[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/mistral/pixtral-12b)

Does your code call Pixtral 12B?

$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash

Then mm status in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.

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