Mistral: Mistral 7B Instruct
Mistral 7B Instruct is a compact, affordable model with modest benchmark scores across reasoning and coding tasks, suitable for lightweight text generation at very low cost. It has been superseded by newer Mistral releases and is not recommended for demanding business applications.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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A high-performing, industry-standard 7.3B parameter model, with optimizations for speed and context length. *Mistral 7B Instruct has multiple version variants, and this is intended to be the latest version.*
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Mistral |
| Instruct Type | mistral |
| Parameters | 7B |
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
| Output | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
