What are the hardware requirements for Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit?

Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit requires approximately 8.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit and how large is it?

Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit is developed by unsloth, a model with 12b 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 Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit?

Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit by unsloth — VRAM 8.6GB

Name: Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit
Author: unsloth

Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 12b LLM, VRAM: 8.6GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

4-bit 4bit Base model:mistralai/pixtral-1... Base model:quantized:mistralai... Bitsandbytes Conversational En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Llava Mistral Multimodal Pixtral Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Pixtral-12B-2409-bnb-4bit

Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Pixtral 12B 2409 Bnb 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Pixtral-12B-2409-bnb-4bit
Base Model(s)	Pixtral 12B 2409 mistralai/Pixtral-12B-2409
Model Size	12b
Required VRAM	8.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llava
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.6 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	LlavaForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<pad>
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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