What are the hardware requirements for Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1?

Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1 requires approximately 14.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1 and how large is it?

Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1 is developed by MaziyarPanahi, a model with 11b 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 Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1?

Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1 by MaziyarPanahi — VRAM 14.5GB, 32K context

Name: Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1
Author: MaziyarPanahi

Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1 is an open-source language model by MaziyarPanahi. Features: 11b LLM, VRAM: 14.5GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Merged Model 7b Autotrain compatible Conversational Delcos/starling-lm-11b-alpha En Endpoints compatible Instruct Mistral Mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-... Region:us Safetensors Sharded Starling Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Starling-LM-11B-alpha-Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1

Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

LLM Name	Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Starling-LM-11B-alpha-Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	11b
Required VRAM	14.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	MaziyarPanahi
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 4.6 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.36.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Instruction Following and Task Automation
Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
Censorship and Alignment
Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

Quantized Models of the Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
... Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1 GGUF	1	151	2 GB

Best Alternatives to Starling LM 11B Alpha Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...elik V2.3 Instruct MedIT Merge	32K / 22.3 GB	1592	2
...elik V2.3 Instruct Llama Prune	32K / 15.4 GB	1387	0
Mistral 11B Instruct V0.1	32K / 42.9 GB	169	2
...Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 Slerp	32K / 14.4 GB	4	1
...Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 Slerp	32K / 14.4 GB	6	2
Mistral 11B Instruct V0.2	32K / 21.4 GB	6	3
... 11B V2.2 Instruct Quanto 8bit	32K / 12 GB	209	4
Bielik 11B V2.2 Instruct W8A8	32K / 11.5 GB	172	3
Bielik 11B V2.2 Instruct FP8	32K / 11.4 GB	53	3
... 11B V2.2 Instruct EXL2 4.5bit	32K / 6.5 GB	391	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than MaziyarPanahi/Starling-LM-11B-alpha-Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1.