Mistral · 46.7B · Desktop / import
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct on a phone
Mixture-of-experts — high quality without always loading a dense 70B.
- Parameters
- 46.7B
- Typical Q4
- ~26 GB (Q4) / less active
- RAM to budget
- ~32 GB
- Engines
- GGUF
Get it running
Sparse MoE; ~12–26 GB depending on quant; LM Studio classic. Hugging Face: mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1.
Load in LM Studio or Ollama, then chat from the phone.
Get LM Mini and load a model that actually fits — on-device, or via Connect to a PC.
Phones that can run it
- None in this guide — use a Mac or Connect.
Tight (close other apps)
- None in this guide — use a Mac or Connect.