What are the hardware requirements for Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2?

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 requires approximately 14.4 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 Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 and how large is it?

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 is developed by mistralai, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 perform on standard benchmarks?

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 has the following published scores: MMLU 60.78, LMSYS ELO 1087. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 by mistralai — VRAM 14.4GB, 32K context

Name: Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2
Rating: 3.18 (11 reviews)
Author: mistralai

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 is an open-source language model by mistralai. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 14.4GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.43, ELO: 1087, Arc: 63.1, HellaSwag: 84.9, MMLU: 60.8, GSM8K: 40.

Arxiv:2310.06825 Conversational Deploy:azure Eval-results Finetuned Instruct Mistral Mistral-common Pytorch Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1087 vs 1272 (so35) -14.5%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

LLM Name	Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	14.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-13
Maintainer	mistralai
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 4.5 GB: 3-of-3 4.9 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 5.1 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.36.0
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 Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Lemonilia ShoriRP V0.75d	1	8	0 GB
...ral 7B Instruct V0.2 Llamafile	25	8850	14 GB
ShoriRP V0.75d	33	52	0 GB
Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 AWQ	52	298182	4 GB
Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF	511	70243	3 GB
...ral 7B Instruct V0.2 Llamafile	25	7110	14 GB
Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GPTQ	56	6743	4 GB
...Instruct V0.2 AWQ 4bit Smashed	1	8	4 GB
Mimi Chatbot 0.2	0	12	4 GB
Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2 GGUF	0	43	3 GB

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...daz Web AI ChatML 512K Project	512K / 14.5 GB	12	0
... Summarize 64K QLoRANET Merged	128K / 4.1 GB	11	0
...1 Summarize 64K LoRANET Merged	128K / 14.4 GB	13	0
Mistral 7B Instruct V0.1	32K / 14.4 GB	253629	1846
Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2	32K / 14.4 GB	1338	0
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