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Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501

Mistral Small 3 ( 2501 ) sets a new benchmark in the "small" Large Language Models category below 70B, boasting 24B parameters and achieving state-of-the-art capabilities comparable to larger models! This model is an instruction-fine-tuned version of the base model: Mistral-Small-24B-Base-2501.

Params
23.6 B
Context
32,768
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Likes
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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 10 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 94.3 GB 107.8 GB ❌ Won’t fit
model.safetensors (bf16, full) bf16 + 32K ctx 94.3 GB 118.4 GB ❌ Won’t fit
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub
~ · curl · api/v1
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501
{
  "hf_id": "mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501",
  "params_b": 23.57,
  "context_length": 32768,
  "license": { "id": "apache-2.0", "commercial": "yes" },
  "downloads_30d": 73988,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 107.8 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19T06:01:20Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Use via API

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.05
input / 1M
$0.08
output / 1M
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cached input / 1M
$0.13
1M in + 1M out
Context window
32,768 tokens
Max output
16,384 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
DeepInfra · $0.05 / $0.08
Best throughput
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AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
6.7 / — / —
✗ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✗ Prompt caching

Specifications

Architecture
MistralForCausalLM
Parameters
23.6 B
Tensor type
BF16
Context length
32,768
Vocabulary
131,072
Layers / heads
40 / 32
Licence
apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub
2025-01-28
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-10-20
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