WizardLM-2 8x22B
Microsoft · released Apr 16, 2024 · microsoft/WizardLM-2-8x22B
- Type
- Open weights
- Params
- Not published
- Context
- 66K
about 49K words of context
Our take
Written Sep 30, 2026WizardLM-2 8x22B is a text-only model you can download and run yourself, and three hosts serve it at one flat rate. Nothing here measures how good its answers are, and no licence is listed, so treat it as a trial rather than a settled pick.
Use it for text generation you can judge on your own work, either by running it yourself or through a host, then download it later if it earns a place. Before you build anything commercial on it, check the terms yourself, because we list no licence for it. Skip it if you need measured evidence of coding, reasoning or chat quality, or a licence you can read first.
The case for it
- You can download it and run it yourself, so you are not tied to a host for access.
- Three hosted offers list the same rate for input and output, so the cost per token does not change with the host you pick.
The case against it
- No licence is listed, so the terms you would be accepting for commercial use, changes and redistribution are unverified in our data.
- No benchmark scores are supplied, so its ability on coding, reasoning or chat needs a trial on work you can check yourself.
- The offers list prices but no measured speed, so price alone cannot tell you which host is quicker.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 2 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.62 in / $0.62 out
- Context served
- 66K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.62 / $0.62checked 2 hours ago | 66K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Novita AIbf16Direct and through OpenRouter | $0.62 / $0.62checked 2 hours ago | 66K8K max reply through OpenRouter | 14 tok/sthrough OpenRouter | DirectUnknownThrough OpenRouterNo | DirectUnknownThrough OpenRouterNo | DirectUnknownThrough OpenRouterConfirmed |
Novita AIAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts (only through OpenRouter), 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 1 appears in the zero-retention registry we check (only through OpenRouter); the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Novita AIbf16Direct and through OpenRouter | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
Tool calling: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no.
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- No independent board has scored it, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts, and 1 answers only through OpenRouter, not for its own listing.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model yet.
Identifiers
- Hugging Face
- microsoft/WizardLM-2-8x22B
- Takes in, gives back
- Text in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- microsoft-wizardlm-2-8x22b