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Mistral 7B

Mistral 7B — Especificações

Compiled by Mustafa Ihsan from the vendor’s published documentation · Last updated

Desenvolvedor Mistral AI
Tipo LLM (densa)
Modalidade Texto → Texto
Parâmetros 7B
Janela de contexto 32K
Licença Apache 2.0 (aberta)
Pesos abertos Sim
Lançado 2023
Preço da entrada $0.02 /1M
Preço da saída $0.03 /1M
Provedores de API Mistral, DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Ollama

Execute-o localmente

VRAM (4 bits) ~4,5 GB
GPU mínima Qualquer GPU de 6 GB

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What is Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B is the model that kicked off the open-LLM wave — 7B parameters, Apache 2.0, a
32K context and a footprint of about 4.5 GB at 4-bit that runs on a 6 GB GPU. It is still a
solid, ultra-cheap baseline at $0.02 in / $0.03 out per million tokens.

Its remaining role is as a floor rather than a recommendation. The 32K context is the
binding constraint: every comparable small model now ships with 128K, so anything involving
documents, long conversations or substantial retrieval will hit the wall on Mistral 7B first.
Where it still earns a place is in tightly scoped, high-volume classification and routing
tasks with short inputs, on constrained hardware, or as the historical baseline in an
evaluation — if a newer model cannot beat Mistral 7B on your data, the problem is probably
your prompt or your data, not the model. For new local deployments, Qwen3 8B and Llama 3.1 8B
occupy the same hardware bracket with four times the context, and are the better starting
point.

Mistral 7B pricing: API cost per 1M tokens

Entrada (por 1 milhão de tokens)$0.0200
Saída (por 1 milhão de tokens)$0.0300
Razão saída/entrada1.5×
Misturada (4:1 entrada:saída)$0.0220 por 1 milhão de tokens

What Mistral 7B costs per month

Gasto mensal real com uma proporção de entrada para saída de 4:1 — a razão efetivamente gerada por cargas de trabalho típicas de chat ou RAG.

Carga de trabalhoTokens/mêsCusto por mês
Projeto paralelo 1 milhão de tokens de entrada / 0,25 milhão de tokens de saída $0.03
Equipe pequena 20 milhões de tokens de entrada / 5 milhões de tokens de saída $0.55
Produção 200 milhões de tokens de entrada / 50 milhões de tokens de saída $5.50

Calcule seus próprios números na Calculadora de custos de API de IA.

Hospedar localmente ou pagar pela API?

Mistral 7B is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. It needs ~4,5 GB of VRAM at 4-bit (Any 6GB GPU). Self-hosting only beats the API once your volume is high enough to keep that hardware busy — the calculadora de autohospedagem versus API calcula o ponto de equilíbrio para seu volume de tokens.

Perguntas frequentes

How much does Mistral 7B cost per 1M tokens?

Mistral 7B costs $0.0200 per 1M input tokens and $0.0300 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $0.0220 per 1M tokens.

How much does Mistral 7B cost per month?

A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $0.55 on Mistral 7B. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $0.03.

Can I run Mistral 7B locally?

Yes. Mistral 7B is open-weight and needs about ~4.5 GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantisation (Any 6GB GPU).

Why does Mistral 7B charge more for output than input?

Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. Mistral 7B charges 1.5× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.

Os preços correspondem às tarifas listadas oficialmente para a API principal do modelo e são revisados conforme os provedores os atualizam. Descontos por volume, processamento em lote ou entradas em cache não estão incluídos. Compare todos os modelos lado a lado na Banco de dados de modelos de IA ou o Ranking de LLMs.

Compare Mistral 7B head-to-head

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