What are the hardware requirements for MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256?

MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256 requires approximately 47.3 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 MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256 and how large is it?

MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256 is developed by sandmanbuzz, a model with 23.6b 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 MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256?

MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256 by sandmanbuzz — VRAM 47.3GB, 32K context

Name: MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256
Author: sandmanbuzz

MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256 is an open-source language model by sandmanbuzz. Features: 23.6b LLM, VRAM: 47.3GB, Context: 32K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Base model:finetune:undi95/mis... Base model:undi95/mistralthink... Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/sandmanbuzz/MistralThinker-v1.1-Reasoner-256

MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MistralThinker V1.1 Reasoner 256
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/sandmanbuzz/MistralThinker-v1.1-Reasoner-256
Base Model(s)	Undi95/MistralThinker-v1.1 Undi95/MistralThinker-v1.1
Model Size	23.6b
Required VRAM	47.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-22
Maintainer	sandmanbuzz
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-5 9.7 GB: 2-of-5 9.7 GB: 3-of-5 10.0 GB: 4-of-5 8.0 GB: 5-of-5
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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