What are the hardware requirements for Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2?

Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 requires approximately 11.5 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 Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 and how large is it?

Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 is developed by sanchit-gandhi, a model with 3b 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 Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2?

Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 by sanchit-gandhi — VRAM 11.5GB, 32K context

Name: Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2
Author: sanchit-gandhi

Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 is an open-source language model by sanchit-gandhi. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 11.5GB, Context: 32K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.12.

Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/sanchit-gandhi/Mistral-3B-Instruct-v0.2

Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/sanchit-gandhi/Mistral-3B-Instruct-v0.2
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	11.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	sanchit-gandhi
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-3 4.9 GB: 2-of-3 1.6 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.40.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float32

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Quantized Models of the Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 Init	3	589	5 GB

Best Alternatives to Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Ministral 3B Instruct	128K / 6.7 GB	7607	86
...inerva 3B Llama3 Instruct V0.1	16K / 5.8 GB	1252	0
Minerva 3B Instruct V1.0	16K / 5.8 GB	19	7
Minerva 3B Instruct V1.0	16K / 5.8 GB	12	7
Toffee 3B Beta	8K / 7.7 GB	254	0
Phi 3 Phituguese 3B FP16	4K / 7.6 GB	7	0
Mistral 3B Instruct V0.2 Init	32K / 5.7 GB	589	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than sanchit-gandhi/Mistral-3B-Instruct-v0.2.