Is Mistral AI Mixtral 8x7B deprecated?
No longer available. Mistral AI shut Mixtral 8x7B down on 2025-03-30 — calls to it fail.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what Mixtral 8x7B takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Mistral AI's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
Specifications
- Input price
- unknown
- Output price
- unknown
- Price band
- unknown
- Context window
- 32.8K tokens
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- Apache-2.0
- Model maker
- Mistral AI
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
Lifecycle
- Released unknown
- Deprecated
- Retired
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Mistral AI's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
What to use instead of Mixtral 8x7B
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Z.ai GLM 5.2 Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier), also open weights; shares chat and coding.
$1.40 in · $4.40 out / M tokens 1M context
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Mistral Medium 3.5 Derived
Same provider, same tier (mid-tier); shares chat and coding.
$1.50 in · $7.50 out / M tokens 262.1K context
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Kimi K2 Thinking Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (mid-tier), also open weights; shares chat and coding.
$0.60 in · $2.50 out / M tokens 256K context
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Kimi K2.5 Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (mid-tier), also open weights; shares chat and coding.
$0.60 in · $3.00 out / M tokens 256K context
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Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct Derived
Alternative from Amazon Bedrock, same tier (mid-tier), also open weights; shares chat and coding.
$0.45 in · $1.80 out / M tokens 128K context
Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- docs.mistral.ai https://docs.mistral.ai/models/mixtral-8x7b-0-1
- docs.mistral.ai https://docs.mistral.ai/models
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- Is Mixtral 8x7B deprecated?
- No longer available. Mistral AI shut Mixtral 8x7B down on 2025-03-30 — calls to it fail.
- When does Mixtral 8x7B shut down?
- Mistral AI has announced 2025-03-30 as the shutdown date for Mixtral 8x7B.
- What does Mixtral 8x7B cost?
- No public price is listed for Mixtral 8x7B in our dataset.
- What can I use instead of Mixtral 8x7B?
- Active alternatives include Mistral AI Z.ai GLM 5.2, Mistral AI Mistral Medium 3.5, Amazon Bedrock Kimi K2 Thinking.