Using Mixtral 8x7B on Replicate API

Implementation guide · Mixtral · MistralAI

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Replicate API exposes Mixtral 8x7B through model ID mixtral-8x7b. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Replicate API and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Replicate API SDK or REST API to call mixtral-8x7b — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.20/1M input, $1.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install replicate
API key
REPLICATE_API_TOKEN
Model ID
mixtral-8x7b

Replicate uses "owner/model-name" format (e.g. "meta/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct") for the latest version, or "owner/model-name:version-sha" to pin to a specific version. The REST endpoint splits owner and model-name into the path: /v1/models/{owner}/{model-name}/predictions.

import replicate

# reads REPLICATE_API_TOKEN from env
# mixtral-8x7b format: "owner/model-name" (latest version) or "owner/model-name:version-hash"
output = replicate.run(
    "mixtral-8x7b",
    input={"prompt": "Hello"}
)
# Output is a list or generator depending on the model
print("".join(output))

Pricing on Replicate API

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.20
Output tokens$1.00

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.

Model Specs

Released2023-12-11
Parameters8x7B
Context32k
ArchitectureMixture of Experts
Knowledge cutoff2023-12

Provider

Replicate API

Replicate

San Francisco, California, United States