Mixtral 8x22B
A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.
Overview
Mixtral 8x22B is one of the first credible open-source MoE models, under Apache 2 license (unconstrained use). Older than the new lineup, but still relevant for absolute sovereignty needs (no license constraint).
Skill profile
Three independent measures
What people prefer, what the model can do, what the market uses. Each source has its biases and none is enough on its own: we show them side by side, never blended.
What do these scores mean?
General knowledge across dozens of academic subjects.
Python code generation from specifications.
Strengths
- Strong French quality
- Has a free tier
- Open-source and self-hostable
Limitations
- Lagging on Arena
- API pricing not disclosed
Who is it for
- you want to control cost or self-host
- you work in French
- your data must stay in the EU
Ideal use cases
- Fully free self-host
- European multilingual
- Academic research
- Sovereignty
Access & availability
Key specifications
What it costs per month
Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.
Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.
nAIvigate Trust Index
What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.
19/19 criteria documented · 100 % · 12 of them set by rule
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[](https://naivigate.com/en/model/mixtral-8x22b)Data & compliance
What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.
| EU data residency | Yes |
| Data processing agreement (DPA) | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Transfer outside the EU | No |
| Training on your data | No |
| Configurable retention | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Zero Data Retention | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Declared hosting | EU/self |
| Anonymisable data | Yes |
Quality of this card’s data
This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.
5/8 documented · 1/8 primary sources · 2 older than 90 days
Advanced data · for expertsArchitecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks▾
| Arena Elo | 1145 |
| MMLU | 77.5% |
| GPQA | — |
| HumanEval | 76.0% |
| SWE-Bench | — |
| MATH | — |