How much does Pixtral 12B cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Pixtral 12B costs about $67.50 per month at Mistral's list prices ($0.15 per 1M input tokens, $0.15 per 1M output tokens).

Does Pixtral 12B support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for Pixtral 12B.

How long is Pixtral 12B's context window?

Pixtral 12B accepts up to 128,000 tokens (128K) of context and returns up to 128,000 tokens per response.

Pixtral 12B API Pricing

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Mistral · released Sep 1, 2024 · 128K context · API model ID pixtral-12b

Pixtral 12B by Mistral API pricing: $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Pixtral 12B prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.15
Output	$0.15
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published

Mistral's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$67.50

per month

per day: $2.25
per request: $0.000225

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$67.50/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$191.25/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$234.00/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 128,000 tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
Input: text, image
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: September 2024
Open weights: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: No
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Pixtral 12B cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Pixtral 12B costs about $67.50 per month at Mistral's list prices ($0.15 per 1M input tokens, $0.15 per 1M output tokens).
Does Pixtral 12B support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for Pixtral 12B.
How long is Pixtral 12B's context window?: Pixtral 12B accepts up to 128,000 tokens (128K) of context and returns up to 128,000 tokens per response.