Open-Source Mistral Models

Match · Updated July 2026

The best open-weight Mistral model is Mixtral 8x22B Instruct (4.4 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. Mistral Small 4 (—) and Devstral 2 2512 (—) round out the top three.

4.4Intelligence

$2.00Input /M

66KContext

The best open-source AI models — open-weight, downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable — ranked by intelligence. Open-source alternatives to proprietary frontier models.

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What is the best open-source Mistral model?

What's a good alternative to Mixtral 8x22B Instruct?

Mistral Small 4 (—) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Devstral 2 2512 (—). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.

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. 11 of them qualify for this ranking.

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