Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

Mistral · Released April 2024 · Knowledge cutoff January 2024

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.

It belongs to Mistral's catalog, which spans Medium and Large (capability), Small and Ministral (efficiency) and dedicated code and audio models, all with European data-residency roots.

Facts and pricing

Provider

Mistral

Context window

66K tokens

Input price

24.0 credits / 1M tokens ($2.00 raw)

Output price

72.0 credits / 1M tokens ($6.00 raw)

Vision (image input)

No

Tool calling

Yes

Extended reasoning

No

Credits are what Zeplik bills: 1 credit = $0.10, computed from the raw provider rate with a 1.20x margin. Raw prices shown per 1M tokens.

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What Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is best for

• Hard problems where answer quality matters more than cost: strategy, analysis, difficult writing
• Tool use and agents: reliably calls functions, so it can search, run skills and drive workflows

Example prompts

Prompts that suit a frontier model like Mixtral 8x22B Instruct:

• Review this business plan and give me the three hardest questions an investor would ask
• Rewrite this announcement so it lands with both engineers and executives
• I am choosing between two job offers, help me think through the tradeoffs
• Draft a technical design doc for a rate limiter, including failure modes

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Frequently asked questions

What is Mixtral 8x22B Instruct?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is an AI model by Mistral. 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.

How much does Mixtral 8x22B Instruct cost on Zeplik?

Input tokens cost 24.0 credits per million and output tokens 72.0 credits per million (1 credit = $0.10; the raw provider rates are $2.00 and $6.00 per million). New accounts start with free credits.

How long can a conversation with Mixtral 8x22B Instruct be?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct has a 66K-token context window (65,536 tokens), which covers the conversation plus any documents you attach.

Does Mixtral 8x22B Instruct support images and tools?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is text-only and supports tool calling.

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