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Atria Dawn Preview vs Pixtral-12B

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -1.6.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -1.6, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Pixtral-12B

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.15/M input and $0.15/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Pixtral-12B
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
-1.6
#336
Reasoning
50.5
#12
-3.8
#338
Coding
36.2
#22
-2.6
#250
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
— / M
$0.15 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.15 / M
Context window
—
128,000

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 12 for Pixtral-12B

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Pixtral-12Bdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

731.6B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 731.6B more parameters than Pixtral-12B, making it 5900.0% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Mistral AI
Pixtral-12B
12.4Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
12.4B
Pixtral-12B

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Pixtral-12B specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Pixtral-12B specifies output context (8,192 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Pixtral-12B
Input128,000 tokens
Output8,192 tokens
Tue Sep 15 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Pixtral-12B supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

Pixtral-12B can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Pixtral-12B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Pixtral-12B uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Pixtral-12B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Pixtral-12B was released on 2024-09-17.

Atria Dawn Preview is 24 months newer than Pixtral-12B.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

4 days ago

2.0yr newer
Pixtral-12B

Sep 17, 2024

2.0 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Pixtral-12B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Atria Dawn Preview
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Pixtral-12B
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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Pixtral-12B.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Pixtral-12B?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to -1.6. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Pixtral-12B is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Pixtral-12B in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Pixtral-12B scores DocVQA: 90.7%, ChartQA: 81.8%, VQAv2: 78.6%, MT-Bench: 76.8%, HumanEval: 72.0%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Pixtral-12B?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Pixtral-12B supports 128K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Pixtral-12B?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs -1.6), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Pixtral-12B?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Pixtral-12B is developed by Mistral AI.

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