Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 is an open-weights language model from Mistral, released October 6, 2026. Its makers disclosed about 1.1T parameters. The context window is 1M tokens. On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 154.6, rank 48 of 256 rated models. API price: $0.7 input / $2.1 output per million tokens.
Today, we’re launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4. Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk. ML4 pushes the frontier of open-weight performance. You can try the preview API today on Mistral Studio. Weights drop end of this month.
Check it against your own PC →
Can you run Mistral Large 4 locally?
Even with 32 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of RAM it is too large to run at a usable speed on a single consumer GPU. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 8 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 12 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 16 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 24 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 32 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
Parameter count unknown. The weights may not be on Hugging Face yet.
Strengths by category
ModelTape's 0–100 fit on Epoch AI benchmark results.
| Category | Score | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 15.0 | Chess Puzzles, Mystery Game Puzzles |
| Knowledge | 67.7 | GPQA diamond, SimpleQA Verified |
Benchmark results
| Benchmark (Epoch AI) | Score |
|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 99.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | 25.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 22.4% |
| EBR-bench | 18.1% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 11.9% |
| Furniture Assembly | 1.2% |
Links
Announcement · Epoch AI benchmarks
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