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Mistral

LLMs mistralai Text gen 2 builds Open weights 1.2M dl/mo

Mistral is an open-weight language model from Mistral AI. mistral-7b-v0.3-bnb-4bit (INT4) weighs 4.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 is a 7.2B parameter text-generation model developed by Mistral AI.
  • It is an instruction fine-tuned version of the Mistral-7B-v0.2 base model designed for English language tasks.
  • The model supports a 32,768 token context window and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released byMistral AI
Released2023-12-11
Parameters7.2B
VRAM4.1 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for mistral-7b-v0.3-bnb-4bit (INT4)

4.1 GBweights, file size
131 MBcache per 1K tokens
648 MBruntime overhead, at least
32,768 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB61all 32K11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB92all 32K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB174all 32K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB174all 32K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB246all 32K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB369all 32K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB6817all 32K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB6516all 32K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB8020all 32K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified9223all 32K107 GB
H200 141 GB12130all 32K138 GB
B200 180 GB15639all 32K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
164all 32K11.6 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
15.9 GB9.1 GB
510.2 GB26.3 GB
813.4 GB39.1 GB
1622.0 GB73.5 GB
3239.1 GB142 GB
6473.5 GB280 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 ↗ 7.2BBF16 14.5 GB2× RTX 3060 12 GB
mistral-7b-v0.3-bnb-4bit (above) ↗
packaged by unsloth
7.5BINT4 4.1 GBRTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What Mistral AI says about Mistral

Read the model card

Encode and Decode with mistral_common

from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.messages import UserMessage
from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.request import ChatCompletionRequest

mistral_models_path = "MISTRAL_MODELS_PATH"

tokenizer = MistralTokenizer.v1()

completion_request = ChatCompletionRequest(messages=[UserMessage(content="Explain Machine Learning to me in a nutshell.")])

tokens = tokenizer.encode_chat_completion(completion_request).tokens

Inference with mistral_inference

from mistral_inference.transformer import Transformer
from mistral_inference.generate import generate

model = Transformer.from_folder(mistral_models_path)
out_tokens, _ = generate([tokens], model, max_tokens=64, temperature=0.0, eos_id=tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.tokenizer.eos_id)

result = tokenizer.decode(out_tokens[0])

print(result)

Inference with hugging face transformers

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2")
model.to("cuda")

generated_ids = model.generate(tokens, max_new_tokens=1000, do_sample=True)

# decode with mistral tokenizer
result = tokenizer.decode(generated_ids[0].tolist())
print(result)

[!TIP] PRs to correct the transformers tokenizer so that it gives 1-to-1 the same results as the mistral_common reference implementation are very welcome!


The Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 Large Language Model (LLM) is an instruct fine-tuned version of the Mistral-7B-v0.2.

Mistral-7B-v0.2 has the following changes compared to Mistral-7B-v0.1

  • 32k context window (vs 8k context in v0.1)
  • Rope-theta = 1e6
  • No Sliding-Window Attention

For full details of this model please read our paper and release blog post.

Instruction format

In order to leverage instruction fine-tuning, your prompt should be surrounded by [INST] and [/INST] tokens. The very first instruction should begin with a begin of sentence id. The next instructions should not. The assistant generation will be ended by the end-of-sentence token id.

E.g.

text = "[INST] What is your favourite condiment? [/INST]"
"Well, I'm quite partial to a good squeeze of fresh lemon juice. It adds just the right amount of zesty flavour to whatever I'm cooking up in the kitchen! "
"[INST] Do you have mayonnaise recipes? [/INST]"

This format is available as a chat template via the apply_chat_template() method:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

device = "cuda" # the device to load the model onto

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2")

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "What is your favourite condiment?"},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, I'm quite partial to a good squeeze of fresh lemon juice. It adds just the right amount of zesty flavour to whatever I'm cooking up in the kitchen!"},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Do you have mayonnaise recipes?"}
]

encodeds = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt")

model_inputs = encodeds.to(device)
model.to(device)

generated_ids = model.generate(model_inputs, max_new_tokens=1000, do_sample=True)
decoded = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids)
print(decoded[0])

Troubleshooting

  • If you see the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/transformers/models/auto/auto_factory.py", line 482, in from_pretrained
config, kwargs = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
File "/transformers/models/auto/configuration_auto.py", line 1022, in from_pretrained
config_class = CONFIG_MAPPING[config_dict["model_type"]]
File "/transformers/models/auto/configuration_auto.py", line 723, in getitem
raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 'mistral'

Installing transformers from source should solve the issue pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers

This should not be required after transformers-v4.33.4.

Limitations

The Mistral 7B Instruct model is a quick demonstration that the base model can be easily fine-tuned to achieve compelling performance. It does not have any moderation mechanisms. We're looking forward to engaging with the community on ways to make the model finely respect guardrails, allowing for deployment in environments requiring moderated outputs.

The Mistral AI Team

Albert Jiang, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Arthur Mensch, Blanche Savary, Chris Bamford, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Diego de las Casas, Emma Bou Hanna, Florian Bressand, Gianna Lengyel, Guillaume Bour, Guillaume Lample, Lélio Renard Lavaud, Louis Ternon, Lucile Saulnier, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Pierre Stock, Teven Le Scao, Théophile Gervet, Thibaut Lavril, Thomas Wang, Timothée Lacroix, William El Sayed.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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