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 →Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct vs Qwen: Qwen-Max
Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among [Qwen models](/qwen), especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further post-train…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct | Qwen: Qwen-Max | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 33K | 33K | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.54 | $1.04 | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.54 | $4.16 | 🏆 Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | — | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct better than Qwen: Qwen-Max?
Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct and Qwen: Qwen-Max?
Input: $0.54 vs $1.04 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.54 vs $4.16 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct and Qwen: Qwen-Max support?
Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct supports up to 33K tokens. Qwen: Qwen-Max supports up to 33K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct and Qwen: Qwen-Max support tool calling?
Mistral: Mixtral 8x7B Instruct: yes. Qwen: Qwen-Max: yes.