WizardLM-2 8x22B vs Mistral Medium 3.1

WizardLM-2 8x22B at $0.713 in and $0.713 out and Mistral Medium 3.1 at $0.460 in and $2.30 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

WizardLM-2 8x22B

Microsoft

0.41¢

for a client proposal

$0.713 in · $0.713 out / 1M

66K context · released April 2024

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Mistral Medium 3.1

Mistral AI

0.41¢

for a client proposal

$0.460 in · $2.30 out / 1M

131K context · released August 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.83¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Mistral Medium 3.1 at $0.460 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: WizardLM-2 8x22B at $0.713 per million tokens.
Largest context: Mistral Medium 3.1 at 131K tokens — about 190 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

WizardLM-2 8x22B

0.18¢

Mistral Medium 3.1

0.21¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

WizardLM-2 8x22B

0.41¢

Mistral Medium 3.1

0.41¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

WizardLM-2 8x22B

needs 155K ctx

Mistral Medium 3.1

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

WizardLM-2 8x22B

2.6¢

Mistral Medium 3.1

1.8¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

WizardLM-2 8x22B

needs 250K ctx

Mistral Medium 3.1

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

WizardLM-2 8x22B

Mistral Medium 3.1

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Pricing

WizardLM-2 8x22B

Mistral Medium 3.1

Input / 1M tokens

$0.713

$0.460

Output / 1M tokens

$0.713

$2.30

Cached input / 1M

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$0.046

Specs

WizardLM-2 8x22B

Mistral Medium 3.1

Provider

Microsoft

Mistral AI

Released

April 2024

August 2025

Context window

66K

131K

Max output

—

Input

Text

Text, Images, and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2024-04-30

2025-06-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

WizardLM-2 8x22B

Microsoft

0.18¢

for this task

80% input · 20% output

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Mistral Medium 3.1

Mistral AI

0.21¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.39¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,297 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Mistral Medium 3.1 has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, WizardLM-2 8x22B is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.41¢.

For images or files, Mistral Medium 3.1 can read them directly; WizardLM-2 8x22B is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, WizardLM-2 8x22B or Mistral Medium 3.1?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): WizardLM-2 8x22B at 0.41¢; Mistral Medium 3.1 at 0.41¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Mistral Medium 3.1 — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run WizardLM-2 8x22B and Mistral Medium 3.1 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.83¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.83¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.