Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Mixtral 8x7B vs Mistral 7B

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Verificato dal team di ricerca di GetInfoUsUltima verifica: October 2026Politica editoriale

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Mixtral 8x7B

Modello Base a Pesi Aperti

Mixtral 8x7B di Mistral AI è un modello di IA progettato per il self-hosting su infrastruttura privata, il fine-tuning e la piena sovranità dei dati, con finestra di contesto da 33K, velocità di 130 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 37/100

Intelligence Index37 / 100

Input Token:

$0.20 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.20 / 1M

Context Window:

32.8K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

N/A

Mistral AI

Mistral 7B

Inferenza Ultra-Rapida

Mistral 7B di Mistral AI è un modello di IA progettato per le interazioni in tempo reale a bassissima latenza e il routing ad alto volume, con finestra di contesto da 33K, velocità di 200 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 32/100 e tariffa

Intelligence Index32 / 100

Input Token:

$0.06 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.06 / 1M

Context Window:

32.8K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

N/A

Differenze Chiave a Colpo d’Occhio

Mistral 7B is 3.3x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
Mistral 7B is faster at 200 tok/s vs 130 tok/s.

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Feature	Mixtral 8x7B	Mistral 7B
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	37	32
Provider	Mistral AI	Mistral AI
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.20 / 1M	$0.06 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.20 / 1M	$0.06 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.10 / 1M	$0.03 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	32.8K tokens~49 A4 pages of text	32.8K tokens~49 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	4K	4K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	130 tok/s	200 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	N/A	N/A
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	38%	N/A
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens	$0.05 / 1M	$0.01 / 1M

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

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Cost

Mistral 7B

3.3x cheaper monthly runtime

Speed

Mistral 7B

+54% faster generation

Context

Tied

32.8K tokens window

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

Mixtral 8x7BMistral 7B

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

38%vsN/A

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

66.5%vs56%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1195ptsvs1120pts

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

130 tok/s vs200 tok/s

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

Mixtral 8x7B0.38s

Mistral 7B0.24s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

Mixtral 8x7B4.23s

Mistral 7B2.74s

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

Mixtral 8x7B Monthly API Bill

$0.56 / month

$0.2/1M in · $0.2/1M out

Mistral 7B Monthly API Bill

$0.17 / month

$0.06/1M in · $0.06/1M out

Mistral 7B saves approximately $0.39 / month (70%) under this workload.3.3x Savings

Mixtral 8x7B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 33K con capacità massima di output fino a 4K token (GPQA Diamond 38% · MMLU-Pro 66.5%)
Throughput elevato di 130 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 380 ms
Pesi aperti (46.7B (12.9B )) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Mistral 7B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 33K con capacità massima di output fino a 4K token (MMLU-Pro 56% · Arena Elo 1120)
Throughput elevato di 200 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 240 ms
Pesi aperti (7.3B) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	Mixtral 8x7B	Mistral 7B
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.20	$0.20
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	24K	24K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	0K	0K

Specifiche Tecniche

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	Mixtral 8x7B	Mistral 7B
Official API Model ID (SDK)	mixtral-8x7b-latest	mistral-7b-latest
API Protocol	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2023-12	2023-09
Knowledge Cutoff	Late 2023	Mid 2023
Architecture	Sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE, 2 active of 8)	Sliding Window Attention (SWA) Transformer
Parameters	46.7B (12.9B active)	7.3B
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Flat rate ($0.2/1M in) across full 33K window	Flat rate ($0.06/1M in) across full 33K window
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Cached input at $0.05/1M tokens	Cached input at $0.015/1M tokens
Computer Use / GUI Agent	API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)	Text-only completion (No GUI action loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Prompt-based JSON extraction only
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 29 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 100 GB VRAM (Native BF16)	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 5 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 16 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Input Modalities	text	text
Output Modalities	text	text

Mixtral 8x7B vs Mistral 7B: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Mixtral 8x7B or Mistral 7B?

Mixtral 8x7B is more intelligent. It scores 37 compared with 32 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Mistral 7B is faster, generating 200 tokens per second compared with 130 tokens per second.

Which model is cheaper to run?

Mistral 7B is cheaper at $0.03 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $0.10 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).

Which model has lower latency?

Mistral 7B has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.24s compared with 0.38s.

Verdetto

Sia Mixtral 8x7B (Ideale per il self-hosting su infrastruttura privata, il fine-tuning e la piena sovranità dei dati, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) sia Mistral 7B (Ideale per le interazioni in tempo reale a bassissima latenza e il routing ad alto volume, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) eccellono in produzione: Mixtral 8x7B guida nei benchmark di ragionamento e programmazione, Mistral 7B garantisce una generazione più rapida e Mistral 7B offre il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo per carichi API elevati.

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

Quale modello è migliore per coding e ragionamento, Mixtral 8x7B o Mistral 7B?+

Nell’indice di intelligenza composito e nei benchmark di programmazione prevale Mixtral 8x7B. Consulta i punteggi SWE-bench e GPQA qui sopra per tutti i dettagli.

Qual è la differenza di prezzo API tra Mixtral 8x7B e Mistral 7B?+

Mixtral 8x7B costa $0.20 / $0.20 per milione di token di input/output, mentre Mistral 7B costa $0.06 / $0.06. Nel costo combinato, Mistral 7B risulta più economico.

Quale modello ha la finestra di contesto più ampia e la velocità maggiore?+

Mixtral 8x7B supporta 32.8K token di contesto contro 32.8K token di Mistral 7B, mentre Mistral 7B offre una velocità di generazione superiore.

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Mixtral 8x7B vs Mistral 7B

Cambia e Confronta Qualsiasi Modello

Mixtral 8x7B

Mistral 7B

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Mixtral 8x7B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Mistral 7B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Specifiche Tecniche

Mixtral 8x7B vs Mistral 7B: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Verdetto

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

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