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Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603

119.4 billion parameters, routing 4 of 128 experts per token.

The official Mistral card documents a 256K context and its serving example sets max-model-len to 262144; the config exposes a larger positional limit, so the safer documented limit is used for calculator validation. Open the official context documentation ↗

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Architecturepublished data
Quick answer
Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603 needs about 72.6 GB at Q4_K_M — the format most people download — with 8,192 tokens of context. It fits entirely on 5 of 18 common devices, starting with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8060S (128 GB). What else fits in 128 GB. No hardware for it? Rent a GPU that runs it, priced live.

Sized at 8,192 tokens of context with the whole model in device memory, across 18 common devices. Speeds are estimates, not benchmarks.

Find the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8060S, the smallest card listed here that holds it: Amazon ↗ · eBay (new and used) ↗Store links may pay us a commission. They never decide which card is suggested — the memory arithmetic does.

Weight-file size by format

FormatSizeRangeBasis
FP16236.2 GB232.4 GB – 240.0 GBreconstructed size
Q8_0125.5 GB123.5 GB – 127.5 GBreconstructed size
Q6_K96.9 GB95.4 GB – 98.5 GBreconstructed size
Q5_K_M83.9 GB82.5 GB – 85.2 GBreconstructed size
Q5_081.3 GB80.0 GB – 82.6 GBreconstructed size
Q4_K_M71.6 GB70.5 GB – 72.8 GBreconstructed size
Q4_066.6 GB65.5 GB – 67.7 GBreconstructed size
Q3_K_M58.6 GB53.8 GB – 63.3 GBreconstructed size
Q2_K43.0 GB40.8 GB – 45.2 GBreconstructed size

A file size is not the memory a run needs: the KV cache and the runtime reserve come on top, and the calculator adds both.

What the labels mean
published data
Read from a published source — a file's byte count, a model's configuration or a manufacturer's specification — or exact arithmetic on such values. Not a measurement on a machine.
reconstructed size
Weight size reconstructed from the pinned architecture, because no published file exists.
size range
Only a lower and an upper bound are claimed for this weight size.

Hardware ladder

Q4_K_M at 8,192 tokens · 5 of 18 devices hold it entirely
DeviceMemoryVerdictDecodeCalculator
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 507072.6 GB of 12 GB31 layers on system RAM~21 tok/s with offloadOpen →
AMD Radeon™ RX 9070 XT72.6 GB of 16 GB29 layers on system RAM~22 tok/s with offloadOpen →
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 408072.6 GB of 16 GB29 layers on system RAM~22 tok/s with offloadOpen →
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 508072.6 GB of 16 GB29 layers on system RAM~22 tok/s with offloadOpen →
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti72.6 GB of 16 GB29 layers on system RAM~22 tok/s with offloadOpen →
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB72.6 GB of 16 GB29 layers on system RAM~21 tok/s with offloadOpen →
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 409072.6 GB of 24 GB25 layers on system RAM~25 tok/s with offloadOpen →
AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX72.6 GB of 24 GB25 layers on system RAM~25 tok/s with offloadOpen →
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 309072.6 GB of 24 GB25 layers on system RAM~25 tok/s with offloadOpen →
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 509072.6 GB of 32 GB21 layers on system RAM~30 tok/s with offloadOpen →
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation72.6 GB of 48 GB13 layers on system RAM~43 tok/s with offloadOpen →
Apple M4 Pro72.6 GB of 64 GBdoes not fitnot calibratedOpen →
Apple M5 Pro72.6 GB of 64 GBdoes not fitnot calibratedOpen →
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8060S72.6 GB of 128 GBfits~57 tok/sOpen →
Apple M3 Max72.6 GB of 128 GBfits~67 tok/sOpen →
Apple M4 Max72.6 GB of 128 GBfits~80 tok/sOpen →
NVIDIA DGX Spark72.6 GB of 128 GBfits~53 tok/sOpen →
Apple M2 Ultra72.6 GB of 192 GBfits~97 tok/sOpen →

Decode is a calibrated estimate from the published calibration; capacity is the manufacturer's published ceiling, not guaranteed free memory. Fitting in memory is not the same as loading: whether the runtime and version you have supports this architecture and format on that machine has not been tested here. Offloaded rows assume there is enough system RAM for the overflow — the calculator checks that against the RAM you declare. Each “Open” link keeps this model, format and context.

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Prices · 18:30 UTC, 22 Sept
18 configurations in stock · 14 out of stock
MachineSpeedPer hourPer M tokensWhereRent
8× RTX 306096 GBcheapest~407 tok/sFaster than you read$0.59$0.40Vast.aiMarketplace · 99.7% reliableRent on Vast.ai
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How to launch it

No Q4_K_M file of Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603 is catalogued here, so there is no exact command to vouch for. Start the machine from the llama.cpp server image ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp:server-cuda and point -hf at a Q4_K_M build from the publisher or a quantizer you trust — search Hugging Face for one. Check its file size against the memory figure on this page before you rent.

Every machine holds the whole model at Q4_K_M and 8,192 tokens of context, no offload. Speeds are this site’s single-stream decode estimates; prices are what each provider’s own API quoted, on-demand, for the whole machine. Vast hosts below 98% measured reliability are left out.

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Under the hood

Architecture, read from the publisher’s file

The numbers every figure above is computed from, with the file they came from.

Architecture

✓ Architecture read from the published config.json

Retrieved 2026-09-01 at pinned commit a11f36bebf70; parameter count from the safetensors index at the same revision.

Architecture
mistral4
Layers
36
Hidden size
4,096
Attention heads
32
KV heads
32
Head dimension
128
Feed-forward width
12,288
Vocabulary
131,072
Context ceiling
262,144
Config max_position_embeddings
1,048,576
RoPE theta
10,000
Experts
128
Experts / token
4
Expert width
2,048
Shared experts
1
Latent KV rank
256

Where the memory goes

tokenembedding× 36 decoder blocksLatent attentioncompressed KV rankfull contextRouted experts4 of 128 per tokenall residentoutputprojectiongrows with contextcapacity ≠ traffic

Latent attention projects keys and values into a compressed rank before caching them, which is why its KV cache is a fraction of a comparable dense model.

This is a multimodal checkpoint (vision); the diagram and memory sizing above cover the text decoder. Encoder/audio/image activations are not included in the KV or weight figures.

Open the exact official config.json ↗

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Citing this page

LLM Bottleneck. “Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603 VRAM and hardware requirements.” Architecture from mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603 at revision a11f36bebf70, retrieved 2026-09-01. https://llmbottleneck.com/models/mistralai-mistral-small-4-119b-2603

Every figure above is either the published value or a reconstruction whose measured error is on the accuracy page.

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