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Mistral AI · Released Dec 11, 2023

Mixtral 8x7B

Mistral model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool-assisted workflows.

  • Open weights
  • Tool calling
Capability
118.5ECI · #142 of 148
Input
$0.70per 1M tokens
Output
$0.70per 1M tokens
Context
32K32K max output
Pricing

What it costs

Input
$0.70per million tokens
Output
$0.70per million tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.70cheaper than 53% of priced models

Typical monthly bills

Monthly usageEstimated cost
Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens$1.75
Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens$21.00
Production app250M input + 50M output tokens$210.00

Official Mistral API price, as listed on models.dev.

Capability

Independent benchmarks

118.5Epoch Capabilities Index
#142 of 148 scored models
88Median 146167

The shaded band is Epoch AI’s confidence range (111.3–121.3); the tick marks the median scored model.

  • GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions30.6%

Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Mistral AI.

Specifications

The details

Lab
Mistral AI
Released
Dec 11, 2023
Knowledge cutoff
Jan 2024
Context window
32,000 tokens
Max output
32,000 tokens
Inputs
Text
Output
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Structured output
No
Weights
Open weights
API model ID
open-mixtral-8x7bon Mistral
Availability
1 API providerlisted on models.dev

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Questions

About Mixtral 8x7B

How much does Mixtral 8x7B cost?

Mixtral 8x7B costs $0.70 input / $0.70 output per million tokens (official Mistral API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.70 per million tokens, cheaper than 53% of the 360 priced models we track.

What is the context window of Mixtral 8x7B?

Mixtral 8x7B accepts up to 32,000 tokens per request and can write up to 32,000 tokens in one response.

How good is Mixtral 8x7B?

Epoch AI gives Mixtral 8x7B a Capabilities Index score of 118.5 (likely range 111.3–121.3), ranking it #142 of 148 models Epoch has scored. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 30.6%.

Is Mixtral 8x7B open source?

Yes. Mistral AI publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.

What inputs does Mixtral 8x7B support?

Mixtral 8x7B accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.

When was Mixtral 8x7B released?

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B on Dec 11, 2023. Its training data runs to Jan 2024.

What are the best alternatives to Mixtral 8x7B?

The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Claude Haiku 3 (Anthropic, ECI 118.4, $0.25 / $1.25), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct (Alibaba (Qwen), ECI 118.5, $0.175 / $0.70), Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct (Meta, ECI 125.9, $0.72 / $0.72) and Nova Pro (Amazon, ECI 123.8, $0.80 / $3.20).