What are the hardware requirements for Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit?

Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit requires approximately 25 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Where can I download or evaluate Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit?

Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit by mlx-community — VRAM 25GB

Name: Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit
Author: mlx-community

Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 24b LLM, VRAM: 25GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

8-bit 8bit 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/mistralai_Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512-MLX-8Bit

Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Mistralai Devstral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 MLX 8Bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/mistralai_Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512-MLX-8Bit
Base Model(s)	...tral Small 2 24B Instruct 2512 mistralai/Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512
Model Size	24b
Required VRAM	25 GB
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	mistral3
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-5 5.3 GB: 2-of-5 5.3 GB: 3-of-5 5.3 GB: 4-of-5 3.8 GB: 5-of-5
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	5.0.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<pad>

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