Mistral Small 4 (119B MoE) GPU Hardware & VRAM Calculator

Mistral AI's highly versatile 'all-in-one' model that merges advanced reasoning, vision (Pixtral), and agentic coding into a single highly optimized sparse MoE framework.

Quantization Precision (Bits)INT4 (Quantized)

Lower bits drastically reduce weight footprint but introduce minor accuracy degradation.

Context Length (Tokens)8,192 Tokens

Longer context windows aggressively ingest VRAM during Key-Value matrix caching.

Estimated Minimum VRAM
80 GB

Dynamically aggregated for Mistral Small 4 (119B MoE) based on your selected quantization precision and context boundary.

Scroll down for real-time mathematical proof.

📊 Real-Time VRAM Mathematical Formulation & Derivation

How did we arrive at 80 GB? Below is the verified industrial infrastructure forecasting model.

The VRAM Forecasting Equation
Total VRAM = (Model Weights + KV Cache) × System Overhead
VRAM = ((Params × Bits / 8) + (Context / 1024 × 0.5)) × 1.25

1. Input Parameters & Constants Mapping

Model Variables
  • • Params (Model Size): 119 Billion
  • • Bits (Precision): 4-bit (Selected via slider)
Runtime Constants
  • • Context Window: 8,192 Tokens (Selected via slider)
  • • KV Cache Factor: 0.5 GB / 1K Tokens (Empirical baseline)
  • • System Overhead: 1.25 (25%) (CUDA Context & Activation buffer)

2. Step-by-Step Calculation Engine

[Step 1] Compute Model Weights Allocation:

Formula: (Parameters × Bits) / 8 Bytes per GB

➔ (119B × 4) / 8 = 59.50 GB

[Step 2] Compute Key-Value (KV) Cache Matrix Size:

Formula: (Tokens / 1024) × 0.5 GB Baseline

➔ (8192 / 1024) × 0.5 = 4.00 GB

[Step 3] Apply System Overhead Risk Buffer:

Formula: (Weights + KV Cache) × 1.25 CUDA Runtime Multiplier

➔ (59.50GB + 4.00GB) × 1.25 = 79.38 GB

[Final Step] Rounding Ceiling (Ceil):⌈ 79.38 ⌉ = 80 GB

Live Cloud GPU Cost Breakdown

GPU HardwareRequired Cluster SizeCombined VRAMEstimated CostDeployment Link
NVIDIA Blackwell B2001x Node192 GB$4.85/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA Hopper H200 141GB1x Node141 GB$2.95/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA H100 SXM 80GB1x Node80 GB$2.19/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB1x Node80 GB$1.75/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA A100 SXM 80GB1x Node80 GB$1.35/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA A10G 24GB4x Node96 GB$3.16/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA L4 24GB4x Node96 GB$2.20/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB4x Node96 GB$2.60/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB4x Node96 GB$1.56/hrRent via RunPod ↗
AMD Instinct MI300X1x Node192 GB$2.65/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB3x Node96 GB$4.74/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB1x Node94 GB$3.19/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA L40S 48GB2x Node96 GB$3.80/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB2x Node96 GB$4.18/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB2x Node96 GB$2.44/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB1x Node80 GB$1.19/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB4x Node96 GB$1.08/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 96GB1x Node96 GB$2.09/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA A40 48GB2x Node96 GB$0.88/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA L40 48GB2x Node96 GB$1.38/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA A100 PCIe 40GB2x Node80 GB$1.20/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada 24GB4x Node96 GB$1.80/hrRent via RunPod ↗
NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB5x Node80 GB$1.15/hrRent via RunPod ↗
AMD Instinct MI210 64GB2x Node128 GB$1.50/hrRent via RunPod ↗

Pros & Cons of Mistral Small 4 (119B MoE)

PROS
  • Apache 2.0 license for unrestricted commercial application
  • Blazing fast inference speeds averaging over 130 tokens/second
  • Excellent balance of multi-turn logic and multimodal capabilities
CONS
  • Slightly lower absolute academic benchmark density compared to heavy dense models

Production Deployment Guide

# Option 1: Quick Local Deployment via Ollamaollama run mistral-small:4
# Option 2: High-Throughput Cluster via vLLMpython -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-Instruct --tensor-parallel-size 2