Mistral Small 4 119B-A6.5B — VRAM Requirements

Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated March 16, 2026

How much GPU VRAM you need to run Mistral Small 4 Mistral Small 4 119B-A6.5B by Mistral AI locally, a 119B-parameter model. Figures are quantized weights + KV cache + framework overhead, computed from the model's parameter count and published architecture — not a throughput model. See /en/methodology.

Mistral Small 4 119B-A6.5B needs about 73 GB VRAM at Q4_K_M.

VRAM by Quantization

QuantBits/weightWeightsTotal VRAM
Q2_K2.6339.1 GB39.9 GB
Q3_K_M3.4150.7 GB51.5 GB
Q4_K_M4.8371.8 GB72.6 GB
Q5_K_M5.6784.3 GB85.1 GB
Q6_K6.5697.6 GB98.4 GB
Q8_08.50126.4 GB127.2 GB
F1616.00238.0 GB238.8 GB

Switch quantization in the interactive calculator, or see the full Mistral Small 4 model page.

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VRAM Requirements

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Estimates only — actual VRAM varies with context length, batch size, runtime and KV-cache settings.