# mixtral-8x7b-32768 — End-of-Life — shutdown 03/20/25

For mixtral-8x7b-32768, provider is Groq; lifecycle status is End-of-Life; deprecation announced is March 5, 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 03/20/25; recommended replacement is mistral-saba-24b llama-3.3-70b-versatile, recorded from its source on 2026-09-09.

- **Provider:** Groq _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** mixtral-8x7b-32768 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** End-of-Life
- **Deprecation announced:** March 5, 2025 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 03/20/25 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** mistral-saba-24b llama-3.3-70b-versatile _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> March 20, 2025: Mixtral 8x7B On March 5, 2025, we emailed all users of the mixtral-8x7b-32768 model that we would be deprecating this model ID in favor of newer, more performant models. The recommended replacement models offer superior multilingual capabilities and performance for various tasks from text generation to translation. Model ID | Shutdown Date | Recommended Replacement Model ID | mixtral-8x7b-32768 | 03/20/25 | mistral-saba-24b llama-3.3-70b-versatile |

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Deprecation announced

> On March 5, 2025, we emailed all users of the mixtral-8x7b-32768 model that we would be deprecating this model ID in favor of newer, more performant models. The recommended replacement models offer superior multilingual capabilities and performance for various tasks from text generation to translation.

## Source

- https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations

Last verified: 2026-09-09. Review by: 2026-10-09.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).