What are the hardware requirements for Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit?

Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit requires approximately 15 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 384K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit and how large is it?

Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 24b 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 Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit?

Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 15GB, 384K context

Name: Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 24b LLM, VRAM: 15GB, Context: 384K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

4-bit 4bit Base model:mistralai/devstral-... Base model:quantized:mistralai... Conversational Image-text-to-text Instruct Mistral-common Mistral3 Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512-4bit

Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512-4bit
Base Model(s)	...tral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 mistralai/Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512
Model Size	24b
Required VRAM	15 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-3 5.3 GB: 2-of-3 4.4 GB: 3-of-3
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	MambaSSM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	393216
Model Max Length	393216
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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...Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 6bit	384K / 20.8 GB	531	5
...Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 8bit	384K / 26.5 GB	422	1
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...Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 Bf16	384K / 47.8 GB	367	4
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...mall 3.2 24B Instruct 2506 FP8	128K / 25.8 GB	81	6
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