Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
ActiveMistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of [Mixtral 8x22B](/models/mistralai/mixtral-8x22b). It uses 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. Its strengths include: - strong math, coding,...
Overview
Mistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of [Mixtral 8x22B](/models/mistralai/mixtral-8x22b). It uses 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. Its strengths include: - strong math, coding,...
History
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct became available via the Mistral AI API on 2024-04-17.
Training & availability
Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2024-01-31 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Mistral AI has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 65K tokens.
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Input modalities: text.
Limitations
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The knowledge cutoff is 26 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
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The context window (65K tokens) is modest by 2026 standards — unsuitable for processing long documents in a single request.
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Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.
Pricing
- Input: $2.0000 per 1M tokens
- Output: $6.0000 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistral/mixtral-8x22b-instruct",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Providers & performance
1 providerMulti-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.
| Provider | Throughput | Latency (TTFT) | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Context | Quant | Supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral | 101tok/s | 446ms | $2 | $6 | 66K | — | tools · json |
Popularity
Signals from open-source communities — not a quality measure, but useful for gauging adoption among developers.
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Not supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Standard pricing band. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.
- Quality percentile
- —
- Effective price
- $5/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $2/1M in
$6/1M out
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