{"slug": "pixtral-12b-deprecated", "title": "Pixtral 12B deprecated", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "MS◑ Deprecating\n\n# Pixtral 12B\n\nMistral AI · pixtral-12b\n\nReleased2024-09-01\n\nRetiresno announced date\n\npixtraltext+image128k context128k max out\n\nalso matches: \n\n`pixtral-12b`` mistral/pixtral-12b`\n[provider announcement →](https://models.dev/mistral/pixtral-12b)\n\nDoes your code call Pixtral 12B?\n\n$ curl -fsSL https://llmstatus.ai/install.sh | bash\n\nThen `mm status` in any repo — it finds every model you use and flags the ones on a clock. No account, nothing uploaded.\n\n[Get alerted before it retires →](https://llmstatus.ai/sign-up)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pixtral-12b-deprecated", "canonical_source": "https://llmstatus.ai/m/mistral/mistral/pixtral-12b", "published_at": "2026-10-08 00:00:32+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-08 00:47:38.217723+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-products", "developer-tools", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["Mistral AI", "Pixtral 12B", "models.dev", "llmstatus.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pixtral-12b-deprecated", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pixtral-12b-deprecated.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pixtral-12b-deprecated.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pixtral-12b-deprecated.jsonld"}}