MistralMixtralbalancedTool use

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

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, and reasoning - large context length (64k) - fluency in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish See benchmarks on the launch announcement [here](https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-8x22b/). #moe

66K context·~49K words·
Context window66Ktokens

Context window

This model accepts 66K tokens in one request (~49K words of text).

Context window size66K tokens
4K32K128K1M10M

What fits in one request

  • Short document
    About 1,500 words of text
    Fits
  • Long document
    About 37K words of text
    Fits
  • Small codebase
    About 150K words of text
    Won't fit
  • Full novel
    About 375K words of text
    Won't fit

Specifications

Context size, pricing, and release info in one place.

Context window
65,536 tokens (66K)
Speed tier
balanced
Provider
Mistral
Model family
Mixtral
Release date
Apr 2024
Input cost
$0.650/M / 1M tokens
Output cost
$0.650/M / 1M tokens

Capabilities

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Supported (4)
Tool use
Supported
Function calling
Supported
Streaming
Supported
Prompt caching
Supported
Not supported (4)
Vision
Not supported
Extended thinking
Not supported
Web search
Not supported
Batch API
Not supported

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Frequently asked questions

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Mixtral 8x22B Instruct has a context window of 65K tokens (65,536 tokens). This is sufficient for most chat, summarization, and moderate document tasks.

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