Open-weight #17 OpenRouter overall #33
Mistral · Dense transformer

Deploy Mistral Nemo

A proven 12B multilingual instruction model that remains popular because it is easy to deploy and operate.

Total / active12.2B / 12.2B
Context ceiling128K
Planning floor1×32GB
Resident weights~25GB
RuntimevLLM latest
LicenseApache 2.0
Practical target 1x 32GB GPU; 48GB for longer context and batching

Use the official instruct checkpoint and Mistral chat template; 32GB is a planning floor, not a full-131K guarantee.

Seven runbooks for Mistral Nemo

Every card opens a setup sequence tailored to this model's runtime and memory floor.

Prove the runtime before chasing max context

Start at 32,768 tokens, confirm all GPUs are visible, load the official chat template, and send a short request. Increase context and concurrency only after recording free VRAM.

What is measured vs estimated

Rank comes from observed OpenRouter ordering. Parameters, context, license, and runtime notes come from the linked model card. The 1×32GB hardware figure is a planning floor with runtime and KV-cache headroom.

Hand this runbook to Claude Code or Codex

Open a terminal in the repository where you want the deployment files, start claude or codex, then paste this prompt. It asks the agent to verify sources and stop before it creates billable infrastructure.

Deployment prompt
Prepare a reproducible deployment project for Mistral Nemo (mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407); ask me to choose a provider before writing provider-specific infrastructure. Use this guide as the starting context: https://www.getflops.ai/models/mistral-nemo. Use a planning floor of 1x 32GB GPUs, 100GB storage, vllm latest, and an initial context limit of 32768 tokens. Open every linked primary source and flag any mismatch instead of guessing. Create a deployment folder containing README.md, .env.example with no secrets, a pinned start script or infrastructure manifest, and smoke-test.sh. Make the endpoint OpenAI-compatible where the runtime supports it. Run local/static validation, estimate the billable resources, and stop before provisioning paid infrastructure until I approve.
Guardrails included No secrets in files · verify primary docs · approval before spend

Verify before provisioning

Research checked 2026-07-27. Provider inventory and inference-engine support can change faster than this page.