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Magistral-Small-2506

mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506

Magistral-Small-2506 at Q4_K_M is exactly 14,333,910,560 bytes (13.35 GiB / 14.33 GB) — an effective 4.865 bits per weight, not the nominal 4. Its KV cache at 32K is 5.00 GiB.

From the file· summed from 1 file(s)From the file· KV per layer
Parameters
23.6B
Architecture
llama
40 layers
Context
40,960
native (config.json)
License
apache-2.0

Shipped quantizations

● exact bytes, summed from published files
QuantSize●Exact bytes●Effective bpw●Tensors●Publisher
IQ2_XXS6.10 GiB6,545,121,1202.221—bartowski
UD-IQ2_XXS6.29 GiB6,750,903,8402.291—unsloth
IQ2_XS6.71 GiB7,207,034,7202.446—bartowski
IQ2_S6.96 GiB7,478,353,7602.538—bartowski
IQ2_M7.56 GiB8,114,052,9602.754—bartowski
UD-IQ2_M7.68 GiB8,243,322,4002.798—unsloth
Q2_K8.28 GiB8,890,326,5603.017—unsloth
Q2_K8.28 GiB8,890,326,8803.017—bartowski
Q2_K_L8.43 GiB9,047,612,9603.071—unsloth
IQ3_XXS8.64 GiB9,280,593,7603.150—bartowski
UD-IQ3_XXS8.76 GiB9,409,207,8403.193—unsloth
Q2_K_L8.89 GiB9,545,686,8803.240—bartowski
IQ3_XS9.23 GiB9,907,117,9203.362—bartowski
Q3_K_S9.69 GiB10,400,276,0003.530—unsloth
Q3_K_S9.69 GiB10,400,276,3203.530—bartowski
IQ3_M9.92 GiB10,650,951,5203.615—bartowski
Q3_K_M10.69 GiB11,474,083,3603.894—unsloth
Q3_K_M10.69 GiB11,474,083,6803.894—bartowski
Q3_K_L11.55 GiB12,400,762,7204.209—bartowski
IQ4_XS11.88 GiB12,758,916,9604.330—bartowski
IQ4_XS11.90 GiB12,779,888,1604.337—unsloth
IQ4_NL12.54 GiB13,468,016,1604.571—unsloth
IQ4_NL12.54 GiB13,468,016,4804.571—bartowski
Q4_012.57 GiB13,494,230,5604.580—unsloth
Q4_012.57 GiB13,494,230,8804.580—bartowski
Q4_K_S12.62 GiB13,549,280,8004.598—unsloth
Q4_K_S12.62 GiB13,549,281,1204.598—bartowski
Q4_K_M13.35 GiB14,333,910,5604.865—unsloth
Q4_K_M13.35 GiB14,333,910,8804.865—bartowski
Q4_K_L13.81 GiB14,831,984,4805.034—bartowski
Q4_113.85 GiB14,873,108,0005.048—unsloth
Q4_113.85 GiB14,873,108,3205.048—bartowski
Q5_K_S15.18 GiB16,304,414,2405.533—unsloth
Q5_K_S15.18 GiB16,304,414,5605.533—bartowski
Q5_K_M15.61 GiB16,763,985,4405.689—unsloth
Q5_K_M15.61 GiB16,763,985,7605.689—bartowski
Q5_K_L16.00 GiB17,178,173,2805.830—bartowski
Q6_K18.02 GiB19,345,940,0006.566—unsloth
Q6_K18.02 GiB19,345,940,3206.566—bartowski
Q6_K_L18.32 GiB19,670,998,8806.676—bartowski

KV cache by context

computed per layer
ContextKV cache (f16)●Flat formulaOverstated byFull / windowed / recurrent
4,0960.63 GiB0.63 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
8,1921.25 GiB1.25 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
16,3842.50 GiB2.50 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
32,7685.00 GiB5.00 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
65,53610.00 GiB10.00 GiB—40 / 0 / 0
131,07220.00 GiB20.00 GiB—40 / 0 / 0

Compare with

same modality, comparable size
vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instructvs Qwen3.6-27Bvs Qwen3.8-27Bvs gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantizedvs gemma-4-E4B-itvs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507All alternatives →Will it fit on my card? →

Will it run on your card?

full quant x context sweep
By VRAM:8GB12GB16GB24GB32GB48GB
Radeon RX 6500 XT 4GBGeForce RTX 3050 6GBGeForce RTX 5050 8GBGeForce RTX 3080 10GBGeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GBGeForce RTX 5070 12GBGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBApple M3 Pro 18GBGeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GBGeForce RTX 5090 D V2 24GBGeForce RTX 5090 D 32GBApple M5 Max 36GBApple M5 Pro 48GBApple M5 Max 64GBApple M3 Ultra 96GBApple M5 Max 128GBApple M2 Ultra 192GBApple M3 Ultra 256GBApple M3 Ultra 512GB

Why other calculators give a different number

A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate puts Q4_K_M at roughly 12.35 GiB. The real file is 13.35 GiB, because a quantization is a mixture and some tensors are always kept at higher precision.

Architecture

from config.json
Layers
40
Attention heads
32
KV heads
8
Head dim
128
Hidden size
5120
Vocab
131,072
Sliding window
none
SWA period
—
MLA
no
Experts
—
Experts per token
—
use_sliding_window
—

Questions people ask

How much VRAM does Magistral-Small-2506 need?
Q4_K_M is exactly 14,333,910,560 bytes (13.35 GiB) in weights. Add the KV cache, which depends on your context length, plus roughly half a gigabyte of runtime overhead.
How large is Magistral-Small-2506's KV cache?
5.00 GiB at 32K context with an f16 cache, computed per layer. Quantizing the cache to q8_0 roughly halves it, which is often the difference between a context length fitting and not.
Which quantization of Magistral-Small-2506 should I use?
Q4_K_M is the usual default. Pick the largest quantization that fits your card at the context you actually need — the table above gives exact sizes for every one published.