What are the hardware requirements for BigMistral 11B?

BigMistral 11B requires approximately 21.5 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 BigMistral 11B and how large is it?

BigMistral 11B is developed by athirdpath, 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 BigMistral 11B?

BigMistral 11B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

BigMistral 11B by athirdpath — VRAM 21.5GB, 32K context

Name: BigMistral 11B
Author: athirdpath

BigMistral 11B is an open-source language model by athirdpath. Features: 11b LLM, VRAM: 21.5GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.1.

Endpoints compatible Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/athirdpath/BigMistral-11b

BigMistral 11B Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

Base Mistral, but with some minor head trauma. Promising in theory, needs finetuning, but only really outperforms the 14b in size.

Training Details

Methodology:

NeverSleep recipe

LLM Name	BigMistral 11B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/athirdpath/BigMistral-11b
Model Size	11b
Required VRAM	21.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-09
Maintainer	athirdpath
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	10.0 GB: 1-of-3 10.0 GB: 2-of-3 1.5 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.35.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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CarbonBeagle 11B Truthy	32K / 21.4 GB	7713	10
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than athirdpath/BigMistral-11b.