WizardLM-2 8x22B is Microsoft AI's most advanced Wizard model. It demonstrates highly competitive performance compared to leading proprietary models, and it consistently outperforms all existing state-of-the-art opensource models. It is an…
Model details →WizardLM-2 8x22B vs Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct is a pretrained generative Sparse Mixture of Experts, by Mistral AI, for chat and instruction use. Incorporates 8 experts (feed-forward networks) for a total of 47 billion parameters. Instruct model fine-tuned by Mist…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | WizardLM-2 8x22B | Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 66K | 33K | 🏆 WizardLM-2 8x22B |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.62 | $0.54 | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.62 | $0.54 | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | — | Yes | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | — | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is WizardLM-2 8x22B better than Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct?
Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between WizardLM-2 8x22B and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct?
Input: $0.62 vs $0.54 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.62 vs $0.54 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do WizardLM-2 8x22B and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct support?
WizardLM-2 8x22B supports up to 66K tokens. Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct supports up to 33K tokens.
Do both WizardLM-2 8x22B and Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct support tool calling?
WizardLM-2 8x22B: not advertised. Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct: yes.