WizardLM-2 8x22B

Name: WizardLM-2 8x22B
Author: Dreamgen

Released

2024-01-09

Last refreshed

2026-07-11

Status

Researched 93d ago

Open sourceCommercial use: permittedCodingClassificationJSON / Tool use

WizardLM-2 8x22B is worth evaluating for coding, classification, and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating coding, classification, and json / tool use
Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

Vision or document-understanding workloads

Specifications

Family: WizardLM-2
Released: 2024-01-09
Parameters: 8x22B
Architecture: Mixture of Experts
Specialization: general
Openness: Open source
License: Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights: Unknown
Code: Unknown
Training: Fine-tuned

Created by

Dreamgen

Unrestricted AI role-play and story generator

N/A

Founded N/A

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$0.500

Input / 1M

$0.500

Cheapest of 5 routes · Lepton AI API

Providers(5)

DeepInfra Lepton AI API OctoAI API (Deprecated)OpenRouter Novita AI

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About

WizardLM-2 8x22B, developed by WizardLM@Microsoft AI, is a powerful large language model (LLM) featuring 141 billion parameters and utilizing a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture. It excels in complex tasks such as chat, multilingual conversations, reasoning, and agent-based interactions. Trained with an AI-powered synthetic system incorporating techniques like Evol-Instruct and AI Align AI, the model surpasses many open-source alternatives. Despite its performance on various benchmarks, further research is essential to address potential biases and enhance reliability post "toxicity testing."

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

Q/$ B

1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.

Classification

Q/$ C

1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.

JSON / Tool use

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 5

Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
Lepton AI API	$0.500	$0.500	Serverless
Novita AI	$0.620	$0.620	Serverless
OpenRouter	$0.620	$0.620	Serverless
DeepInfra	$0.650	$0.650	Serverless

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

HumanEvalRank 67 of 97

Claude Sonnet 4.6

98.0

96.7

Claude Opus 4.6

95.0

Grok-3

94.5

WizardLM-2 8x22Bcurrent

67.5

Benchmark scores(2)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.