Get Started with Mixtral 8x7B on Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry offers access to Mixtral 8x7B with a 32K context window. Microsoft Foundry is a unified enterprise AI platform that significantly expands beyond Azure OpenAI. It functions as a multi-provider hosting and deployment platform for LLMs, supporting models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, xAI, Meta, Mistral, NVIDIA, and others. Foundry integrates agent services, evaluation, observability, and governance into a single Azure control plane. Key capabilities include a multi-provider model catalog, Model Router for intelligent prompt routing, Foundry Agent Service for building and deploying AI agents with built-in tracing and monitoring, and enterprise-grade governance with RBAC, compliance, and regional deployments. For broader model catalog including Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Llama, Mistral, and NVIDIA Nemotron, Foundry is the recommended platform over Azure OpenAI.
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.27 |
| Output tokens | $0.27 |
Capabilities
About Mixtral 8x7B
Mixtral 8x7B, developed by Mistral AI, features a cutting-edge Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, utilizing eight experts with seven billion parameters each, yielding a total of 46.7 billion parameters. This architecture activates only two experts per token, allowing for efficient processing and a 6x faster inference rate compared to Llama 2 70B. The model excels in performance, surpassing Llama 2 70B and competing with GPT-3.5 on numerous benchmarks. It supports multiple languages and can handle context up to 32,000 tokens, enhancing understanding of lengthy text. Designed for diverse tasks, it is strong in code generation and available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, promoting community engagement. Compatible with various optimization tools, its weights are easily deployable, with Mistral AI continuing to improve its capabilities through performance optimizations and fine-tuning efforts.