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Voxtral Small 24B
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by Mistral
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RANKED #8 OF 26 AUDIO · OVERALL #261 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.2 · 152 VOICES ·
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Voxtral Small is an enhancement of Mistral Small 3, incorporating state-of-the-art audio input capabilities while retaining best-in-class text performance. It excels at speech transcription, translation and audio understanding. Input audio.
HAPPY10.0
3 mentions
SAD5.0
1 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 149 voices in this window
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
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 Voxtral Small 24B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
24B parameters, a Q4 quantized file is about 14 GB to 15 GB (BF16 is ~48 GB)
- BARE MINIMUM
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM + 16 GB SYSTEM RAM
~$220 USEDQ4 quant with CPU offloading or low-bit Q3, ~12 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super
16 GB VRAM
~$780 NEWQ4 quant fully in VRAM, ~35 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDQ6_K/Q8_0 quant or multi-GPU for BF16, ~65 tok/s, full 32k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN VOXTRAL SMALL 24B?
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 Voxtral Small 24B 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 Ti Super | FULL POWERNvidia GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narrate a scripta minute of spoken audio | —★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
| Transcribe a recordinga ten minute recording turned into text | —★★★★★ | —★★★★★ | —★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. A DASH MEANS NO SPEED WAS RESEARCHED FOR THAT RIG. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Voxtral Small 24B yet to call it. We found 152 posts but people did not say much either way.
125 POSTS · 27 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · BLUESKY · DEV.TO · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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