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Why use Pixtral 12B Instruct on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Pixtral 12B Instruct with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.15/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$0.15
Cache
Not sourced
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Python + curlInstall
pip install openaiAuth
export AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...Call
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],Model ID
mistral/pixtral-12bRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistral/pixtral-12b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "mistral/pixtral-12b", not the LLMReference slug "pixtral-12b-2409".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.15 |
| Output tokens | $0.15 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodal
About Pixtral 12B Instruct
Instruction-tuned 12B multimodal model for conversational vision-language tasks and image analysis with efficient inference.
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Model Specs
Released2024-09-12
Parameters12B
Context128k
ArchitectureDecoder Only