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Mixtral 8×22B
Mixtral 8×22B — Mistral's largest open-weight model with 141B total parameters.
✗ Vision✓ Tool use✗ Prompt caching✗ ReasoningMedium
Pricing (verified 2026-08-19)
| Type | Price / 1M tokens | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.20 | Per 1M input tokens |
| Output | $1.20 | Per 1M output tokens |
Source: Mistral AI official pricing page · Last verified 2026-08-19
Context Window
64K tokens
≈ 48K words · 0 pages of text
At $1.20/M input via Together AI, Mixtral 8×22B delivers performance comparable to GPT-4-class models at a fraction of the cost. The largest open-weight MoE model with strong multilingual capability.
Best for
- Complex reasoning and code generation at scale
- Multilingual applications (strong on French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese)
- Teams self-hosting on H100 / multi-A100 clusters
- Function calling and structured output at lower cost than proprietary models
Not ideal for
- Resource-constrained teams (requires 48+ GB VRAM at Q4 for local deployment)
- Tasks requiring frontier-level reasoning (GPT-5.4 or o3 are stronger)
Real cost scenarios
| Scenario | Est. monthly cost | Breakdown |
|---|---|---|
| Multilingual content — 1M queries/month at 2k tokens | $3,600 | 1.2B input at $1.20/M + 800M output at $1.20/M |
Estimates with typical token distributions. Use the Prompt Cost Calculator for your exact workload.
How to cut costs on Mixtral 8×22B
- Self-hosting on a 4× A100 80GB cluster costs ~$7,300/month (RunPod) and gives unlimited inference — break-even vs API is roughly 3M tokens/hour utilization.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Mixtral 8×22B better than Llama 3 70B?
On most benchmarks, Mixtral 8×22B outperforms Llama 3.1 70B on reasoning and multilingual tasks. However, Llama 3.3 70B (the newer model) is competitive on English tasks at lower cost. For multilingual use, Mixtral 8×22B is still preferred.
Pricing verified 2026-08-19 from Mistral AI official pricing. All prices in USD per 1M tokens. See methodology and price changelog.