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Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

Name: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
Brand: Mistral
Price: 2.000000 USD

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Largest open-weights Mixtral MoE. Cheap-to-serve frontier-ish quality before Llama 3.1 405B and DeepSeek V3 took the open-weights lead.

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is a efficient AI model from Mistral. It costs $2.000 per million input tokens and $6.000 per million output tokens (blended $3.200/M), with a 65,536-token context window.

Profile inherited from upstream Mixtral 8x22B ↗ — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model.

Released Apr 2024Modalities textOfficial model page ↗Provider pricing ↗API docs ↗Pricing source ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →

INPUT

$2.000/M

per million input tokens

OUTPUT

$6.000/M

per million output tokens

BLENDED 70/30

$3.200/M

unchanged since 3 May

default reference rate · how it is calculated →

CONTEXT

65,536

tokens

What it is good at

Open-weights MoE
Cheap inference per active parameter
64K context

Typical use cases

Self-hosted chat at scale
Fine-tune base

Benchmarks

vs. best public score

Scores inherited from Mixtral 8x22B — this is a hosted variant of the same open-weights model, so the underlying benchmark scores are identical.

MMLU78%

Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.

GPQA Diamond36%

Graduate-level science questions, "Google-proof".

MATH42%

High-school competition math problems.

HumanEval76%

Python function synthesis from docstrings.

LMArena Elo1198 Elo

Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.

Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources, treat as directional rather than authoritative.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Mixtral 8x22B Instruct cost?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct costs $2.000 per million input tokens and $6.000 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $3.200 per million tokens.

What is Mixtral 8x22B Instruct's context window?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct supports up to 65,536 tokens of context in a single request.

What is Mixtral 8x22B Instruct best for?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is well suited to Open-weights MoE, Cheap inference per active parameter and 64K context.

Who makes Mixtral 8x22B Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is developed and served by Mistral. It was released in Apr 2024.

Terms used on this page

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Token Input tokens Output tokens Price per million tokens Context window Prompt caching Batch API Blended cost