Best Local Mistral Models
Match · Updated July 2026
The best local Mistral model is Mixtral 8x22B Instruct (4.4 intelligence) — open weights on Hugging Face, small enough to run on your own hardware.
4.4Intelligence
$2.00Input /M
66KContext
The best local LLMs — open-weight models small enough to run on your own hardware with Ollama, llama.cpp or vLLM — ranked by intelligence. Frontier-scale open models (400B+) are excluded: downloadable isn't the same as runnable. Every model here is on Hugging Face.
Frequently asked
What is the best local Mistral model?
The best local Mistral model is Mixtral 8x22B Instruct (4.4 intelligence) — open weights on Hugging Face, small enough to run on your own hardware.
How many Mistral models are there?
modelgrep tracks 19 Mistral models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Mistral Medium 3.5. 1 of them qualify for this ranking.
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