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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

25 Aug 2026
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

ASSESSMENT

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).

Decimal GB (10⁹ bytes), matching how GPU memory is advertised.
QuantisationWeightsTotal
bf16bf16 is two bytes per weight, the same arithmetic as fp16.48.02 GB65.1 GB
int824.01 GB37.49 GB
int412.01 GB23.68 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

1 using it

07Evidence

7 verified
  1. 01–07
    Tier 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

    FreshRetrieved 25 Aug 2026sha256:0cddc49c6103

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