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Magistral Small 2506

Parameters
24B
Architecture
Dense
Max context
40K tokens
License
apache-2.0
Released
2025-06

How to run it

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

ollama run magistral:24b

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

huggingface.co/unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Mistral AI, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506 (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 5 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

Memory needed

Weights plus KV cache and runtime overhead. Leave a little extra free for the operating system and other apps.

Quantization Quality Weights Total at 8K context Total at 32K context Download
Q2_K Low 9.4 GB 11.4 GB 15.4 GB GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M Low 11.5 GB 13.5 GB 17.5 GB GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M Good 14.4 GB 16.3 GB 20.3 GB GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M High 16.7 GB 18.7 GB 22.7 GB GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K High 19.3 GB 21.3 GB 25.3 GB GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 Very high 25.0 GB 26.9 GB 31.0 GB GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 Full 47.1 GB 49.1 GB 53.1 GB GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Best hardware for Magistral Small 2506

The least expensive GPU in our catalog that runs it without offloading is the Intel Arc B580 (launch price $249) at Q2_K.

Grade · points Hardware Quant Memory Speed Fit
85 ptsExcellent (S) · 85 of 100 points: Model quality 30.3/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q6_K 22.9 GB / 32.0 GB 64.8 tok/s Runs well
84 ptsGreat (A) · 84 of 100 points: Model quality 29.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q5_K_M 19.9 GB / 24.0 GB 40.3 tok/s Runs well
84 ptsGreat (A) · 84 of 100 points: Model quality 29.7/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q5_K_M 19.9 GB / 24.0 GB 43.4 tok/s Runs well
84 ptsGreat (A) · 84 of 100 points: Model quality 29.1/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q4_K_M 17.5 GB / 24.0 GB 43.1 tok/s Runs well
79 ptsGreat (A) · 79 of 100 points: Model quality 25.7/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q3_K_M 14.3 GB / 16.0 GB 45.2 tok/s Tight fit
79 ptsGreat (A) · 79 of 100 points: Model quality 25.7/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q3_K_M 14.3 GB / 16.0 GB 49.6 tok/s Tight fit
79 ptsGreat (A) · 79 of 100 points: Model quality 25.7/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q3_K_M 14.3 GB / 16.0 GB 60.3 tok/s Tight fit
79 ptsGreat (A) · 79 of 100 points: Model quality 25.7/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Q3_K_M 14.3 GB / 16.0 GB 64.6 tok/s Tight fit
79 ptsGreat (A) · 79 of 100 points: Model quality 25.7/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 14.4/15, Memory use 15.0/15 AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q3_K_M 14.3 GB / 16.0 GB 37.1 tok/s Tight fit
78 ptsGreat (A) · 78 of 100 points: Model quality 30.6/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 7.6/15 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Q8_0 31.7 GB / 96.0 GB 47.5 tok/s Runs well

Check it on your own hardware

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.