Mistral: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-instruct

Created Apr 17, 202465,536 context

$0.40/M input tokens$1.20/M output tokens

Mistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of 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. #moe

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Sample code and API for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.

OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 300+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.

In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
  base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
  api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  extra_headers={
    "HTTP-Referer": "<YOUR_SITE_URL>", # Optional. Site URL for rankings on openrouter.ai.
    "X-Title": "<YOUR_SITE_NAME>", # Optional. Site title for rankings on openrouter.ai.
  },
  extra_body={},
  model="mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-instruct",
  messages=[
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "What is the meaning of life?"
    }
  ]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)

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