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Nemo 12B Instruct
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by Mistral
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RANKED #267 OF 318 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #409 OF 494 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.4 · 38 VOICES ·
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Mistral model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool-assisted workflows
HAPPY9.3
5 mentions
SAD5.7
2 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 10 voices in this window
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Nemo 12B Instruct once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
12.2B parameters, a Q4_K_M GGUF file is about 7.5 GB (needs ~8-9 GB VRAM with context)
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USEDQ4_K_M quant, ~45 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$520 NEWQ5_K_M quant, ~70 tok/s, 16k context
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDFP16 or Q8_0 quant, ~95 tok/s, full 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN NEMO 12B INSTRUCT?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Nemo 12B Instruct takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~11 S | ~7 S | ~5 S |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~21 S★★★★★ | ~16 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~3 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~84 S★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~6 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.4 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Nemo 12B Instruct yet to call it. We found 38 posts but people did not say much either way.
30 POSTS · 8 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · REDDIT · X · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT MORE
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
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Switched from Llama 3.1 to Mistral—Huge Upgrade!
- REDDIT · 2024-09-11 · 54 UPVOTESPixtral-12b , multimodel from mistral
Pixtral-12b , multimodel from mistral
- REDDIT · 2024-09-17 · 48 UPVOTESAnnouncing Pixtral 12B
Announcing Pixtral 12B
- REDDIT · 2024-12-03 · 24 UPVOTESNanoGPT (provider) update: a lot of additional models + streaming works
NanoGPT (provider) update: a lot of additional models + streaming works
- REDDIT · 2024-09-05 · 23 UPVOTESmistral-nemo:12b-instruct-2407-fp16 beats Llama 3.1 8b-instruct-fp16 any day.
mistral-nemo:12b-instruct-2407-fp16 beats Llama 3.1 8b-instruct-fp16 any day.
- REDDIT · 2025-03-21 · 17 UPVOTESMistral-small 3.1 Vision for PDF RAG tested
Mistral-small 3.1 Vision for PDF RAG tested
- REDDIT · 2025-09-08 · 12 UPVOTESIs finetuning a 12b model on 16gb vram possible?
Is finetuning a 12b model on 16gb vram possible?
- REDDIT · 2026-03-23 · 11 UPVOTESNew to Ollama and using local models. Questions on RAG and how it works.
New to Ollama and using local models. Questions on RAG and how it works.
- REDDIT · 2024-08-31 · 11 UPVOTESComment in r/SillyTavernAI
Comment in r/SillyTavernAI
- REDDIT · 2026-04-06 · 10 UPVOTESApply image rotation correction before sending images to vision models - Pixtral alternatives comparison revisited
Apply image rotation correction before sending images to vision models - Pixtral alternatives comparison revisited
- REDDIT · 2026-03-13 · 9 UPVOTESPixtral retirement - I tried 8 alternatives, this is what I found
Pixtral retirement - I tried 8 alternatives, this is what I found
- REDDIT · 2026-10-14 · 5 UPVOTESWhy Naive Sliding-Window RAG Fails on Complex PDFs ( and how we solved it )
Why Naive Sliding-Window RAG Fails on Complex PDFs ( and how we solved it )