Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
FrontierToolsMistral · 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. Its strengths include: - strong math, coding,...
It belongs to Mistral's catalog, which spans Medium (capability), Small and Ministral (efficiency) and dedicated code models, all with European data-residency roots.
Facts and pricing
- Provider
- Mistral
- Context window
- 66K tokens
- Input price
- 22.0 credits / 1M tokens ($2.00 raw)
- Output price
- 66.0 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 1.10x 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
Mistral family
| Model | Context | Input cr/M | Output cr/M | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Medium 3.5 | 262K | 16.5 | 82.5 | April 2026 |
| Mistral Small 4 | 262K | 1.7 | 6.6 | March 2026 |
| Devstral 2 2512 | 262K | 4.4 | 22.0 | December 2025 |
| Ministral 3 14B 2512 | 262K | 2.2 | 2.2 | December 2025 |
| Ministral 3 8B 2512 | 262K | 1.7 | 1.7 | December 2025 |
| Ministral 3 3B 2512 | 131K | 1.1 | 1.1 | December 2025 |
| Mistral Large 3 2512 | 262K | 5.5 | 16.5 | December 2025 |
| Voxtral Small 24B 2507 | 32K | 1.1 | 3.3 | October 2025 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | 131K | 4.4 | 22.0 | August 2025 |
| Codestral 2508 | 256K | 3.3 | 9.9 | August 2025 |
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. Its strengths include: - strong math, coding,...
- How much does Mixtral 8x22B Instruct cost on Zeplik?
- Input tokens cost 22.0 credits per million and output tokens 66.0 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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