Mixtral 8x22B Instruct

MistralMCP Tool Call

mistral/mixtral-8x22b-instructOpen Weights

Mistral model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool-assisted workflows

Benchmark Pricing$2.00 / 1M in$6.00 / 1M out$0.20 cache read

Context: 65,536 tokens•Max Output: 52,428 tokens•Knowledge: 2024-01-31•Released: 2024-04-17

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window65,53665.5K tokens

Max Output52,42852.4K tokens

LicenseOpen SourceSelf-hostable

Input Modalities

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Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)

Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Mixtral 8x22B Instruct natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 65,536 tokens, this model can handle compact tool sets. Consider keeping MCP server tool manifests minimal to preserve headroom.

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Mixtral 8x22B Instruct via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.MISTRAL_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "mistral/mixtral-8x22b-instruct",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);