Model
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Recorded as suitable for chat, rag, coding, multilingual.
- Source
- Model registry API
- Verified
- 25 Aug 2026
- Confidence
- High
01What this is
- Author
- mistralai
- Family
- Mistral Small
- Task
- text-generation
- Hugging Face
- mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506
- OpenRouter
- mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct
- Also known as
- Mistral Small 3.2, mistral-small-3.2-24b, mistral small 24b
02Registry facts
- LicenceFACT
apache-2.0
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- ParametersFACT
24.0B
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- Context lengthFACT
not returned by the registry
- Evidence not verified
- Downloads (30 days)FACT
266,292
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- LikesFACT
603
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- GatedFACT
no
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Model
- downloadsFACT
266292
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- gatedFACT
false
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- likesFACT
603
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- model licenseFACT
apache-2.0
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- parameter countFACT
24011361280
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Other
- last modifiedFACT
2025-12-22T10:16:55.000Z
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- libraryFACT
vllm
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03VRAM by quantisation
Peak VRAM for serving this model, computed by lib/deployment/hardware.ts from weights + KV cache + 15% runtime overhead. Inputs: 24.0B parameters, 8,192 tokens of context (assumed — none fetched yet), 4 concurrent requests (assumed).
| Quantisation | Weights | Total |
|---|---|---|
| bf16bf16 is two bytes per weight, the same arithmetic as fp16. | 48.02 GB | 65.1 GB |
| int8 | 24.01 GB | 37.49 GB |
| int4 | 12.01 GB | 23.68 GB |
What this estimate assumes
- Weights: 24.0B parameters × 2 bytes per parameter (fp16) = 48.02 GB.
- No model configuration was supplied, so the KV cache uses the size heuristic for this band: 0.262 MB per token, from Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (64 × 8 × 128).
- KV cache: 0.262 MB per token × 8,192 tokens of context × 4 concurrent requests = 8.59 GB, sized for every user holding a full context at once.
- Overhead: 15% of weights plus KV cache for the runtime, activations and memory fragmentation = 8.49 GB.
- GB means 10⁹ bytes, matching how GPU memory is advertised.
- KV cache held at fp16 (2 bytes per element); quantising weights does not by itself quantise the cache.
- Peak figure, not average: prefix caching and paged attention usually keep real usage lower, while speculative decoding, CUDA graphs and a second resident model push it higher.
- "Concurrent" counts requests generated at the same instant, not people: 4 simultaneous requests is the worst case this estimate is built on — measure yours before buying.
04Hardware profiles
On-premise single 48 GB GPU server
- GPU
- NVIDIA L40S 48 GB (rack) or NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB (office workstation)
- VRAM
- 48 GB
- System RAM
- 128 GB
- Storage
- 4000 GB
- CPU
- 24–32-core x86 server CPU (AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon Scalable)
- Form factor
- Rack server
Indicative costUS$12,000 – US$22,000
indicative build cost for the complete machine, USD, Aug 2026 — verify with a local supplier
The step up when answer quality matters more than price: a 32B model at 4-bit with generous KV cache, or a 14B model at fp16 with a long context. ECC memory and a standard 2U chassis mean it belongs in a rack or comms room rather than under a desk.
Sizing basis
- Weights: 24.0B parameters × 2 bytes per parameter (fp16) = 48.02 GB.
- No model configuration was supplied, so the KV cache uses the size heuristic for this band: 0.262 MB per token, from Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (64 × 8 × 128).
- KV cache: 0.262 MB per token × 8,192 tokens of context × 4 concurrent requests = 8.59 GB, sized for every user holding a full context at once.
- Overhead: 15% of weights plus KV cache for the runtime, activations and memory fragmentation = 8.49 GB.
- GB means 10⁹ bytes, matching how GPU memory is advertised.
- KV cache held at fp16 (2 bytes per element); quantising weights does not by itself quantise the cache.
- Peak figure, not average: prefix caching and paged attention usually keep real usage lower, while speculative decoding, CUDA graphs and a second resident model push it higher.
- "Concurrent" counts requests generated at the same instant, not people: 4 simultaneous requests is the worst case this estimate is built on — measure yours before buying.
Apple Silicon workstation (unified memory)
- GPU
- Apple M4 Max (up to 128 GB unified) or M3 Ultra (up to 256 GB unified)
- VRAM
- 96 GB
- System RAM
- 128 GB
- Storage
- 2000 GB
- CPU
- Apple M4 Max / M3 Ultra
- Form factor
- Workstation
Indicative costUS$4,500 – US$12,000
indicative build cost for the complete machine, USD, Aug 2026 — verify with a local supplier
Quiet, standard-socket power draw, and a large memory pool — about 75% of installed unified memory is addressable by the GPU, which is where the 96 GB figure comes from on a 128 GB M4 Max. Memory bandwidth, not capacity, sets the ceiling: excellent for a pilot, a partner workstation or a single heavy user, weak for 40 people at once. Runs Ollama, llama.cpp and MLX; does not run CUDA builds of vLLM.
Sizing basis
- Weights: 24.0B parameters × 2 bytes per parameter (fp16) = 48.02 GB.
- No model configuration was supplied, so the KV cache uses the size heuristic for this band: 0.262 MB per token, from Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct (64 × 8 × 128).
- KV cache: 0.262 MB per token × 8,192 tokens of context × 4 concurrent requests = 8.59 GB, sized for every user holding a full context at once.
- Overhead: 15% of weights plus KV cache for the runtime, activations and memory fragmentation = 8.49 GB.
- GB means 10⁹ bytes, matching how GPU memory is advertised.
- KV cache held at fp16 (2 bytes per element); quantising weights does not by itself quantise the cache.
- Peak figure, not average: prefix caching and paged attention usually keep real usage lower, while speculative decoding, CUDA graphs and a second resident model push it higher.
- "Concurrent" counts requests generated at the same instant, not people: 4 simultaneous requests is the worst case this estimate is built on — measure yours before buying.
05Hosted providers
No hosted provider has been fetched for this model. OpenRouter’s catalogue is read by pnpm sync; until it runs, this is empty rather than assumed.
06Deployment stacks
07Evidence
- 01–07Tier 4official repository / model cardHugging Face Hub
Hugging Face model card data — mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506
https://huggingface.co/api/models/mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506
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