Mistral: Mistral 7B Instruct
Mistral 7B Instruct is a small, low-cost model with very limited benchmark scores and has been superseded by newer Mistral releases; suitable only for the most basic text generation tasks.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
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
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
| Output | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
