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Mistral 7B v0.3

The legendary Mistral. Still incredibly fast and reliable for everyday tasks.

Parameters
7B
Minimum RAM
8 GB
Model size
5 GB
Quantization
Q5_K_M

Can Mistral 7B v0.3 run locally?

Mistral 7B v0.3 is best suited for entry-level laptops and desktops. LocalClaw recommends Q5_K_M as the default quantization, with at least 8 GB RAM.

Search term for LM Studio or compatible runtimes: mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3

Hugging Face repository: lmstudio-community/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-GGUF

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Strengths

  • The legendary Mistral
  • Apache 2.0
  • Great speed
  • Huge community

Limitations

  • Surpassed by newer models
  • 32K context
  • Weaker at coding

Best use cases

  • General chat
  • Quick tasks
  • Fine-tuning base
  • RAG

Benchmarks

Speed: 8/10

Quality: 6/10

Coding: 6/10

Reasoning: 5/10

Technical details

Developer: Mistral AI

License: Apache 2.0

Context window: 32,768 tokens

Architecture: Transformer with Sliding Window Attention + GQA

Released: 2024-05