Open-weight local LLM

Mistral Large (123B)

Mistral flagship. 128K context. Top-tier coding and multilingual. 262K downloads. Requires serious hardware.

Large-memory workstation 96 GB RAM Q4_K_M Enterprise AI
Parameters
123B
Minimum RAM
96 GB
Model size
70 GB
Quantization
Q4_K_M

Can Mistral Large (123B) run locally?

Mistral Large (123B) needs a serious workstation with large unified memory or high VRAM.

Search for mistral-large-instruct in LM Studio or another GGUF-compatible runtime.

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Install path

01
Check RAM fitMinimum 96 GB RAM. Start with the Q4_K_M quant.
02
Load the modelSearch mistral-large-instruct in LM Studio.
03
Control locallyUse LocalClaw to manage models, agents, chat, channels and scheduled OpenClaw work.

Strengths

  • Mistral flagship
  • 128K context
  • Top-tier coding and multilingual
  • 262K downloads

Limitations

  • Requires 96GB+ RAM
  • Research license — commercial restrictions
  • Very slow inference

Best use cases

  • Enterprise AI
  • Complex coding
  • Research
  • Multilingual tasks

Capability profile

speed
1
quality
10
coding
9
reasoning
10

Technical notes

Developer
Mistral AI
License
Mistral Research License
Context window
131,072 tokens
Architecture
Transformer decoder-only, 128K context

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Hardware fit is based on LocalClaw's RAM tier, model size and quantization metadata. Always leave memory headroom for your OS and runtime.

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