What is Mixtral 8x22B Instruct?

Mistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of Mixtral 8x22B. It uses 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. Its strengths include: - strong math, coding, and reasoning - large context length (64k) - fluency in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish See benchmarks on the launch announcement here. #moe

How much does Mixtral 8x22B Instruct cost?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct costs $2.00/M input tokens and $6.00/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.20/M tokens.

What is the context length of Mixtral 8x22B Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct has a 65,536 token context window.

Does Mixtral 8x22B Instruct support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

What inputs and outputs does Mixtral 8x22B Instruct support?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct accepts text and files such as PDFs as input and returns text.

Which providers serve Mixtral 8x22B Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: Mistral.

What other text models does Mistral have?

Mistral Large 4, Mistral Medium 3.5, Mistral Small 4 and 16 more are other text models from Mistral.

When was Mixtral 8x22B Instruct released?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct was released on April 17, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is January 31, 2024.

Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-instruct

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Mistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of Mixtral 8x22B. It uses 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. Its strengths include:

strong math, coding, and reasoning
large context length (64k)
fluency in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish

See benchmarks on the launch announcement here. #moe

Modalities

In / out price

$2 / $6per 1M

Context

66K

Released

Apr 17, 2024

Knowledge cutoff

Jan 2024

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Latency / throughput


	$2.00	$6.00	$0.20	0.49s	104 tok/s	100.00%
	$2.20	$6.60	$0.22	0.65s	99 tok/s	100.00%

Input $2.00Output $6.00
104 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $2.20Output $6.60
99 tok/s100.00% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$1.336/M tokens

Output

$6.219/M tokens

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct — Price history

Price history

No effective price data for this selection

		$1.14	$6.00	47.6%	73.0%
		$1.90	$6.60	15.2%	27.0%

Effective in $1.14Effective out $6.00
Token share
73.0%
Effective in $1.90Effective out $6.60
Token share
27.0%

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.90%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.90%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

100.00%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct (Artificial Analysis)
Source	Benchmark	Score
Artificial Analysis	Mixtral 8x22B Instruct GPQA Diamond	33.2%
Artificial Analysis	Mixtral 8x22B Instruct HLE	4.0%
Artificial Analysis	Mixtral 8x22B Instruct LiveCodeBench	14.8%
Artificial Analysis	Mixtral 8x22B Instruct MMLU-Pro	53.7%
Artificial Analysis	Mixtral 8x22B Instruct AIME	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Mixtral 8x22B Instruct MATH-500	54.5%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

G0DM0D3-pliny

new

87.4Mtokens

SillyTavern

SillyTavern is the LLM frontend for power users, a chat interface that connects to any model and gives deep control through character creation, roleplay, and prompt customization.

11.4Mtokens

Janitor AI

Janitor AI is a chatbot platform where users create and chat with custom AI characters for interactive roleplay, storytelling, and immersive fiction.

6.89Mtokens

IGL Guru AI Writer

new

4.86Mtokens

There are many coding agents, but this one is yours.

4.38Mtokens

Rest of OpenRouter

4.74M

Top 5 Apps

3.14M

Available through EU in-region routing

Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).

Providers in Europe

Mistral

Prices in Europe

Mistral: $2.20/M tokens input, $6.60/M tokens output

Base URL

https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1

Plan

Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing

Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs

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