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Pixtral Large

Available · Language, Multimodal

Pixtral Large is a 124B multimodal model from Mistral AI that takes text and images and outputs text, built on Mistral Large 2 with a 123B decoder and a 1B-parameter vision encoder. Mistral calls it the second model in its multimodal family; it was offered in le Chat, on the API and as weights under the Mistral Research License, with a commercial licence for commercial use. [1] [2]Modalities [3] Primary source

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  • Released Primary source[1]page date; first paragraph [4]November 18, 2024 [2]release date
  • Deprecated Primary source[5]Deprecated & retired models table, row Pixtral Large [2]Deprecation date
  • Retired Primary source[5]Deprecated & retired models table, row Pixtral Large
  • Status AvailableWeights under the Mistral Research License remain downloadable from the mistralai Hugging Face organisation; the API endpoint pixtral-large-2411 was deprecated on 2026-02-27 and retired on 2026-05-31. Primary source[3] [5]Deprecated & retired models table, row Pixtral Large
  • Replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5 Primary source[5]Deprecated & retired models table, row Pixtral Large, Alternative [2]Replacement
  • Derived from (other) Mistral Large 2Built on top of Mistral Large 2 (Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407) with a 123B multimodal decoder and a 1B vision encoder; Mistral does not name the training method. Primary source[1]first paragraph; Pixtral Large in short [3]first paragraph
  • Successor of Pixtral 12BMistral calls Pixtral Large the second model in its multimodal family, after Pixtral 12B. Primary source[1]first paragraph [3]first paragraph
  • Change · Size Grows to 124B parameters in total: a 123B multimodal decoder and a 1B-parameter vision encoder.Compared with Pixtral 12B Primary source[1]
  • Change · Architecture Its multimodal decoder is built on Mistral Large 2 instead of Mistral Nemo.Compared with Pixtral 12B Primary source[1] [6]
  • Change · Licensing Released under the Mistral Research License and the Mistral Commercial License, whereas Pixtral 12B used Apache 2.0.Compared with Pixtral 12B Primary source[1] [6]
  • Change · Modality Adds image input to the Mistral Large 2 text model; Mistral says it keeps the text-only understanding of Mistral Large 2.Compared with Mistral Large 2 Primary source[1]
  • Input text, image Primary source[2]Modalities [1]first paragraph
  • Output text Primary source[2]Modalities
  • Open weights YesMistral Research License for research and educational use; Mistral Commercial License for commercial use. Primary source[1]first and second paragraphs; Use [3]
  • Context window 128K tokens Primary source[1]Pixtral Large in short [2]Context
  • Parameters 124B123B multimodal decoder plus a 1B-parameter vision encoder. Primary source[1]first paragraph [2]Weights table
  • Access consumer app, API, Open-weights download Primary source[1]Use [4]November 18, 2024

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