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Using Mixtral 8x7B on NVIDIA NIM

Implementation guide · Mixtral · MistralAI

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at NVIDIA NIM and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the NVIDIA NIM SDK or REST API to call mixtral-8x7b — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $1.00/GPU·hr. See full pricing.

Code Examples

See NVIDIA NIM documentation for integration details.

About NVIDIA NIM

NIM packages inference runtimes and model profiles into containers that expose standard API surfaces such as chat completions, completions, model listing, tokenization, health, and management endpoints. The hosted API path is useful for prototyping and catalog discovery, while the NGC/container path is the self-hosted route for teams that want GPU-hour infrastructure control, private-network deployment, Kubernetes scaling, or NVIDIA AI Enterprise support. Per-token pricing is not a universal provider-level claim in the current seed data; pricing should stay attached to sourced model-provider rows or NVIDIA's current catalog terms.

NVIDIA NIM is NVIDIA's deployment platform for GPU-accelerated inference microservices. Developers can try hosted NIM APIs through the NVIDIA API Catalog on build.nvidia.com, then move the same model families into self-hosted NIM containers on NVIDIA GPUs in a data center, private cloud, public cloud, or workstation. The catalog positions NIM around optimized open and NVIDIA models, including chat, coding, reasoning, retrieval, vision, speech, and safety use cases, with downloadable model cards and API endpoints where NVIDIA exposes them.

Pricing on NVIDIA NIM

TypeRate
GPU Hour Rate$1.00/GPU·hr
GPU Config4xH100

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

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.

Model Specs

Released2023-12-11
Parameters8x7B
Context32K
ArchitectureMixture of Experts
Knowledge cutoff2023-12

Provider

NVIDIA NIM
NVIDIA NIM

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California, United States