WizardLM-2 8x22B is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts language model built on the Mixtral 8x22B architecture, released by Microsoft in April 2024. It uses 8 experts with 2 activated per token, achieving strong performance across instruction-following, multilingual tasks, reasoning, and agentic use cases. The model supports a 65,535 token context window and, per the official release, demonstrates highly competitive performance relative to leading proprietary models while outperforming existing open-source models at its scale. It is well-suited to chat, multilingual reasoning, code generation, and multi-step problem-solving. With its Mixture-of-Experts architecture, WizardLM-2 8x22B balances computational efficiency and capability for production deployment. The model is open-weight and available on Hugging Face, enabling integration into custom applications and fine-tuning.
Wizardlm 2 8x22B runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance — full data-handling detail per route below.
| Provider | Region | Zero data retention | Training | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | Enterprise | No | $0.62 | $0.62 |
Wizardlm 2 8x22B runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.
Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.
Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.
Each route hosting Wizardlm 2 8x22B has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.
Zero data retention is available via Opper Enterprise contract. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
Call Wizardlm 2 8x22B through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly — Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.
Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.
import OpenAI from "openai";const client = new OpenAI({apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",});const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({model: "novita/microsoft/wizardlm-2-8x22b",messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],});console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
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