LLMs · Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4 (119B-A6B)
- Parameters
- 119B (6.0B active)
- Architecture
- Mixture of experts
- Max context
- 1,024K tokens
- License
- apache-2.0
- Released
- 2026-03
How to run it
Quantized files · GGUF
Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.
huggingface.co/unsloth/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603-GGUF (opens in a new tab)
ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603-GGUFOriginal weights · Hugging Face
Full-precision files from Mistral AI, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.
huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603 (opens in a new tab)
Official repo · GitHub
Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Mistral AI. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.
github.com/mistralai/mistral-inference (opens in a new tab)
git clone https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-inferenceMemory 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 | 47.8 GB | 48.5 GB | 49.1 GB | GGUF (UD-Q2_K_XL) (opens in a new tab) |
Q3_K_M |
Low | 58.5 GB | 59.3 GB | 59.9 GB | GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) |
Q4_K_M |
Good | 72.8 GB | 73.6 GB | 74.2 GB | GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) |
Q5_K_M |
High | 84.8 GB | 85.6 GB | 86.1 GB | GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) |
Q6_K |
High | 97.9 GB | 98.7 GB | 99.3 GB | GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) |
Q8_0 |
Very high | 127 GB | 127 GB | 128 GB | GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) |
F16 |
Full | 239 GB | 240 GB | 240 GB | GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab) |
Best hardware for Mistral Small 4 (119B-A6B)
The least expensive GPU in our catalog that runs it without offloading is the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (launch price $8,565) at Q4_K_M.
| Grade · points | Hardware | Quant | Memory | Speed | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 ptsExcellent (S) · 90 of 100 points: Model quality 35.9/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 | Apple M2 Ultra (192 GB) | Q6_K | 110 GB / 144 GB | 48.9 tok/s | Runs well |
| 89 ptsExcellent (S) · 89 of 100 points: Model quality 35.9/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 13.7/15 | Apple M3 Ultra (256 GB) | Q6_K | 114 GB / 192 GB | 50.1 tok/s | Runs well |
| 89 ptsExcellent (S) · 89 of 100 points: Model quality 34.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 | Apple M4 Max (128 GB) | Q4_K_M | 81.3 GB / 96.0 GB | 48.1 tok/s | Runs well |
| 89 ptsExcellent (S) · 89 of 100 points: Model quality 34.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 | NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | Q4_K_M | 78.4 GB / 96.0 GB | 183 tok/s | Runs well |
| 86 ptsExcellent (S) · 86 of 100 points: Model quality 34.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 12.5/15, Memory use 15.0/15 | NVIDIA GB10 (128 GB) | Q4_K_M | 82.8 GB / 115 GB | 27.9 tok/s | Runs well |
| 85 ptsExcellent (S) · 85 of 100 points: Model quality 34.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 11.3/15, Memory use 15.0/15 | AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (128 GB) | Q4_K_M | 81.3 GB / 96.0 GB | 22.6 tok/s | Runs well |
| 83 ptsGreat (A) · 83 of 100 points: Model quality 35.9/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 7.8/15 | Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB) | Q6_K | 129 GB / 384 GB | 50.1 tok/s | Runs well |
| 65 ptsGood (B) · 65 of 100 points: Model quality 25.4/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 | Apple M1 Max (64 GB) | Q2_K | 52.4 GB / 48.0 GB | 49.2 tok/s | Runs with offload |
| 65 ptsGood (B) · 65 of 100 points: Model quality 25.4/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 | Apple M4 Max (64 GB) | Q2_K | 52.4 GB / 48.0 GB | 67.1 tok/s | Runs with offload |
| 56 ptsUsable (C) · 56 of 100 points: Model quality 25.4/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 12.5/15, Memory use 15.0/15 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 | Q2_K | 50.1 GB / 32.0 GB | 27.8 tok/s | Heavy offload |
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.