Mixtral 8x22B v0.1
Mixtral 8x22B v0.1 is worth evaluating for coding and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding and classification
- Workloads that can use a 64k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Mixtral
- Released
- 2024-04-17
- Context
- 64k
- Parameters
- 8x22B
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-01
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 8 routes · DeepInfra
About
The Mixtral 8x22B v0.1 is a pretrained generative Sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) model created by Mistral AI [1][2][4]. It utilizes a specialized architecture where different sub-models, termed "experts," manage distinct input segments, enhancing both efficiency and performance relative to traditional large language models [2][10][12]. This model features an impressive 176 billion parameters and supports a context length of 65,000 tokens [10][13]. It excels in text generation, completion, and question answering, outperforming models like LLaMA 2 70B on various benchmarks [4][5][7]. Nonetheless, as a base model, it lacks inherent moderation capabilities, potentially generating inappropriate or harmful content without filtration [2][4][10].
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ B1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ C2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 8Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | $0.650 | $0.650 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $1.20 | $1.20 | ServerlessProvisioned |
| Together AI | $1.20 | $1.20 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $2.00 | $6.00 | Provisioned |
Available via routers & gateways(14)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(5)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 60.1 | diamondObserved 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| HellaSwag | 93.8 | 10-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| HumanEval | 86.2 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 84.5 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| AI2 Reasoning Challenge | 86.0 | —Observed 2026-05-28 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(1)
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Comparison and alternatives
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