Migrating from pixtral-12b-2409 to ministral-14b-2512
What changes when you move from pixtral-12b-2409 to ministral-14b-2512: input price +33.3%, output price +33.3%, context window 128,000 → 256,000 tokens.
- From
- pixtral-12b-2409
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Dec 31, 2025
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | pixtral-12b-2409 | ministral-14b-2512 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $0.20first seen October 5, 2026 · source | +33.3% |
| Output | $0.15first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $0.20first seen October 5, 2026 · source | +33.3% |
At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $0.1875 on pixtral-12b-2409, $0.25 on ministral-14b-2512 (+33.3%).
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | pixtral-12b-2409 | ministral-14b-2512 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 256,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | +100% |
| Max output tokens | Not published | Not published | — |
Features and parameters
Compare modelsSame on both
- Structured outputs: supported on both.pixtral-12b-2409: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-14b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Function calling: supported on both.pixtral-12b-2409: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-14b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Batch API: supported on both.pixtral-12b-2409: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-14b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Image input: supported on both.pixtral-12b-2409: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-14b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- PDF input: supported on both.pixtral-12b-2409: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · ministral-14b-2512: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Not published for pixtral-12b-2409: Prompt caching, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.
Not published for ministral-14b-2512: Prompt caching, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at pixtral-12b-2409.
Aliases pointing at ministral-14b-2512: ministral-14b-latest (in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source)
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ministral-14b-2512 | Amazon Bedrock | mistral.ministral-3-14b-instruct | not before Dec 2, 2026Active |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Checklist
- Change the model string from
pixtral-12b-2409toministral-14b-2512. - Re-check costs: ministral-14b-2512 costs more than pixtral-12b-2409 (input +33.3%, output +33.3%).
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: pixtral-12b-2409, ministral-14b-2512.