What are the hardware requirements for BigMistral 13B?

BigMistral 13B requires approximately 26.7 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 13B and how large is it?

BigMistral 13B is developed by athirdpath, a model with 13b 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 13B?

BigMistral 13B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

BigMistral 13B by athirdpath — VRAM 26.7GB, 32K context

Name: BigMistral 13B
Author: athirdpath

BigMistral 13B is an open-source language model by athirdpath. Features: 13b LLM, VRAM: 26.7GB, 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-13b

BigMistral 13B Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

Works pretty well for a model with no finetuning, has promise. Better and lighter than the 14b.

Training Details

Methodology:

NeverSleep recipe

Model Architecture:

13b Mistral base model

LLM Name	BigMistral 13B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/athirdpath/BigMistral-13b
Model Size	13b
Required VRAM	26.7 GB
Updated	2026-07-21
Maintainer	athirdpath
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-3 9.9 GB: 2-of-3 6.9 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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LuminRP 13B 128K V0.5	128K / 25.1 GB	9	2
Breeze 13B 32K Instruct V1.0	32K / 25.6 GB	8	0
Power WizardLM 2 13B	32K / 25 GB	16	2
Mistral V0.3 13B 32K Base V1	32K / 25.2 GB	7	0
Breeze 13B 32K Base V1.0	32K / 25.6 GB	7	0
Pandora 13B V1	32K / 24.9 GB	95	2
Pandora V1 13B	32K / 24.9 GB	5	3
BigMistral 13B GLUED	32K / 26.6 GB	15	1
...stral 13B DARE Blended FAILURE	32K / 26.7 GB	6	0
...stral 13B DARE Blended FAILURE	32K / 26.7 GB	5	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than athirdpath/BigMistral-13b.