Side-by-side comparison of Mixtral 8x22B Instruct (Mistral AI · France) and Qwen3-8B (Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is rated EU-ready; Qwen3-8B is conditional. They part ways on training data: Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is "Undisclosed", Qwen3-8B is "Token count only".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | EU-ready A rare combination of permissive licensing, EU provenance, and credible multilingual coverage — Apache 2.0 leaves commercial deployment essentially unconstrained, and Paris-based Mistral simplifies the GDPR controller story compared with US-hosted peers. The catch is the training corpus: Mistral has never published a meaningful dataset breakdown, so AI Act transparency obligations on training-data summaries land squarely on the deployer. | Conditional Based on published licence terms, Qwen3-8B is released under standard Apache 2.0 with no field-of-use carve-outs, making self-hosted commercial deployment viable. Training-data disclosure is limited to a token count and Chinese origin creates EU AI Act Art. 53 transparency and data-transfer risks that deployers should document. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-19 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Token count only |
| Origin | EU (France) | China (Hangzhou) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 11/100 |
| Speed | — | 86 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.31/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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