Using Pixtral 12B Instruct on Vercel AI Gateway

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Pixtral 12B Instruct through model ID mistral/pixtral-12b. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call mistral/pixtral-12b — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.15/1M input, $0.15/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
Model ID
mistral/pixtral-12b

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

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)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

TypePrice (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.

Full model details →

Model Specs

Released2024-09-12
Parameters12B
Context128k
ArchitectureDecoder Only

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