# mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2

Calls to the model mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2 on Together AI stopped working on July 29, 2026.

On July 29, 2026, Together AI retired mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2. Calls to model mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2 fail since that day. The change directly affects any integration requesting this specific model.

## What to use instead

The originally suggested replacement, mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1, stopped working on April 16, 2026. No replacement that holds is named yet.

- API: Together AI (api.together.xyz)
- Model: mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2
- Released: May 26, 2025 (models.dev)
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: July 29, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2`
- Source: [Deprecations page](https://docs.together.ai/docs/deprecations)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Together AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/together-ai/mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2/

## Together AI's words

> Removal date: 2026-07-29; Model: mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2; Suggested replacement: mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent