Mistral

Fast, lightweight models for everyday tasks and coding. Run locally with Ollama on Windows.

Quick start

Pull and run the default Mistral:

ollama pull mistral

ollama run mistral

Need more power? Try a Mixture‑of‑Experts variant if supported by your hardware.

Mistral 7B: great speed/quality on most PCs; 8–16 GB RAM recommended. MoE variants (e.g., Mixtral) offer higher quality but need more RAM/VRAM.

Keep models on SSD. For acceleration, see GPU Acceleration.

• Coding assistance and quick snippets

• Summarization and rewriting

• Lightweight chatbots and on‑device assistants

• Rapid prototyping with low latency

• Use concise, explicit prompts (“You are a coding assistant…”) for best results.

• Prefer smaller quantizations for speed; larger ones for quality if hardware allows.

• Close GPU‑heavy apps and keep drivers up to date.

• Benchmark your setup to pick the sweet spot: Benchmarks.

Community‑driven guide. Not affiliated with the official Ollama project.