What are the hardware requirements for Mistral 0.5B Base?

Mistral 0.5B Base requires approximately 2.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Mistral 0.5B Base and how large is it?

Mistral 0.5B Base is developed by Ellio98, a model with 0.5b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Mistral 0.5B Base?

Mistral 0.5B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Mistral 0.5B Base by Ellio98 — VRAM 2.1GB, 4K context

Name: Mistral 0.5B Base
Author: Ellio98

Mistral 0.5B Base is an open-source language model by Ellio98. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 2.1GB, Context: 4K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Conversational Endpoints compatible Generated from trainer Mistral Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Ellio98/mistral-0.5B-base

Mistral 0.5B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Mistral 0.5B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Ellio98/mistral-0.5B-base
Base Model(s)	Ellio98/mistral-0.5B-base Ellio98/mistral-0.5B-base
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	2.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	Ellio98
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	2.1 GB 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.47.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	32768
Torch Data Type	float32

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