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Mistral 7B v0.3

The original Mistral 7B refresh with 32K context and extended vocabulary. Permissive Apache 2.0 weights and the first widely-deployed sliding-window-attention model. Still useful in 2026 for very-low-cost inference and as a baseline for fine-tuning experiments.

Parameters
7B
Context length
33K
Modality
text
Released
2024-05-22
Tokenizer
LlamaTokenizer

Memory & hardware

VRAM (fp16)
14 GB
VRAM (Q4)
4.2 GB
Recommended
RTX 3060 12GB (Q4)
Quantizations
fp16, q8_0, q5_k_m, q4_k_m

License: Apache 2.0

SPDX
Apache-2.0
Commercial use
Yes
Modification
Yes
Redistribution
Yes

Benchmarks

MMLU
60.1
unconfirmed
HumanEval
30.5
unconfirmed
MATH
13.1
unconfirmed
None of these scores has been confirmed against a source we can reach. How we verify.

Hosted inference pricing

No provider we track publishes a per-token price for this model today. What each one used to offer is listed below.

No longer listed

Providers that used to serve this model. We don't republish their old rates — the dates below are the provider's own.

  • togetherNot in Together AI’s serverless catalogue when we checked on 20 September 2026.Source ↗

Run it yourself

Drop-in commands for the three most common open-source inference paths. The Ollama tag is a best-effort match against the registry; verify the size variant before pulling.

Run Mistral 7B v0.3 locally
Ollama (easiest)
ollama run mistral
Single-line install + run; uses the official Ollama registry tag for this family.
vLLM (production)
vllm serve mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.3
High-throughput hosted inference; one command to expose an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server.
Transformers (Python)
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.3")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.3", device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto"
)
Direct PyTorch usage. Pin a torch / cuda version that matches your GPU.
Hugging Face ID: mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.3

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