Magistral-Small-2506 GGUF Models

Model Generation Details

This model was generated using llama.cpp at commit 7f4fbe51.

Quantization Beyond the IMatrix

I've been experimenting with a new quantization approach that selectively elevates the precision of key layers beyond what the default IMatrix configuration provides.

In my testing, standard IMatrix quantization underperforms at lower bit depths, especially with Mixture of Experts (MoE) models. To address this, I'm using the --tensor-type option in llama.cpp to manually "bump" important layers to higher precision. You can see the implementation here:
👉 Layer bumping with llama.cpp

While this does increase model file size, it significantly improves precision for a given quantization level.

I'd love your feedback—have you tried this? How does it perform for you?

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Model Card for Magistral-Small-2506

Building upon Mistral Small 3.1 (2503), with added reasoning capabilities, undergoing SFT from Magistral Medium traces and RL on top, it's a small, efficient reasoning model with 24B parameters.

Magistral Small can be deployed locally, fitting within a single RTX 4090 or a 32GB RAM MacBook once quantized.

Learn more about Magistral in our blog post.

Key Features

Reasoning: Capable of long chains of reasoning traces before providing an answer.
Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, and Farsi.
Apache 2.0 License: Open license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
Context Window: A 128k context window, but performance might degrade past 40k. Hence we recommend setting the maximum model length to 40k.

Benchmark Results

Model	AIME24 pass@1	AIME25 pass@1	GPQA Diamond	Livecodebench (v5)
Magistral Medium	73.59%	64.95%	70.83%	59.36%
Magistral Small	70.68%	62.76%	68.18%	55.84%

Sampling parameters

Please make sure to use:

top_p: 0.95
temperature: 0.7
max_tokens: 40960

Basic Chat Template

We highly recommend including the default system prompt used during RL for the best results, you can edit and customise it if needed for your specific use case.

<s>[SYSTEM_PROMPT]system_prompt

A user will ask you to solve a task. You should first draft your thinking process (inner monologue) until you have derived the final answer. Afterwards, write a self-contained summary of your thoughts (i.e. your summary should be succinct but contain all the critical steps you needed to reach the conclusion). You should use Markdown to format your response. Write both your thoughts and summary in the same language as the task posed by the user. NEVER use \boxed{} in your response.

Your thinking process must follow the template below:
<think>
Your thoughts or/and draft, like working through an exercise on scratch paper. Be as casual and as long as you want until you are confident to generate a correct answer.
</think>

Here, provide a concise summary that reflects your reasoning and presents a clear final answer to the user. Don't mention that this is a summary.

Problem:

[/SYSTEM_PROMPT][INST]user_message[/INST]<think>
reasoning_traces
</think>
assistant_response</s>[INST]user_message[/INST]

system_prompt, user_message and assistant_response are placeholders.

We invite you to choose, depending on your use case and requirements, between keeping reasoning traces during multi-turn interactions or keeping only the final assistant response.

Please make sure to use mistral-common as the source of truth

Usage

The model can be used with the following frameworks;

Inference

vllm (recommended): See below

In addition the community has prepared quantized versions of the model that can be used with the following frameworks (alphabetically sorted):

Training

Fine-tuning is possible with (alphabetically sorted):

Other

Also you can use Magistral with:

kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/models/mistral-ai/magistral-small-2506

vLLM (recommended)

We recommend using this model with the vLLM library to implement production-ready inference pipelines.

Installation

Make sure you install the latest vLLM code:

pip install -U vllm \
    --pre \
    --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightly

Doing so should automatically install mistral_common >= 1.6.0.

To check:

python -c "import mistral_common; print(mistral_common.__version__)"

You can also make use of a ready-to-go docker image or on the docker hub.

Serve model as follows:

vllm serve mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506 --tokenizer_mode mistral --config_format mistral --load_format mistral --tool-call-parser mistral --enable-auto-tool-choice --tensor-parallel-size 2

Ping model as follows:

from openai import OpenAI
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.
openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
openai_api_base = "http://localhost:8000/v1"

TEMP = 0.7
TOP_P = 0.95
MAX_TOK = 40_960

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=openai_api_key,
    base_url=openai_api_base,
)

models = client.models.list()
model = models.data[0].id

def load_system_prompt(repo_id: str, filename: str) -> str:
    file_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)
    with open(file_path, "r") as file:
        system_prompt = file.read()
    return system_prompt

SYSTEM_PROMPT = load_system_prompt(model, "SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt")

query = "Write 4 sentences, each with at least 8 words. Now make absolutely sure that every sentence has exactly one word less than the previous sentence."
# or try out other queries
# query = "Exactly how many days ago did the French Revolution start? Today is June 4th, 2025."
# query = "Think about 5 random numbers. Verify if you can combine them with addition, multiplication, subtraction or division to 133"
# query = "If it takes 30 minutes to dry 12 T-shirts in the sun, how long does it take to dry 33 T-shirts?"

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
    {"role": "user", "content": query}
]
stream = client.chat.completions.create(
  model=model,
  messages=messages,
  stream=True,
  temperature=TEMP,
  top_p=TOP_P,
  max_tokens=MAX_TOK,
)

print("client: Start streaming chat completions...")
printed_content = False

for chunk in stream:
  content = None
  # Check the content is content
  if hasattr(chunk.choices[0].delta, "content"):
    content = chunk.choices[0].delta.content

  if content is not None:
    if not printed_content:
        printed_content = True
        print("\ncontent:", end="", flush=True)
    # Extract and print the content
    print(content, end="", flush=True)

# content:<think>
# Alright, I need to write 4 sentences where each one has at least 8 words and each subsequent sentence has one fewer word than the previous one.
# ...
# Final boxed answer (the four sentences):

# \[
# \boxed{
# \begin{aligned}
# &\text{1. The quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog and yells hello.} \\
# &\text{2. I saw the cat on the stair with my hat.} \\
# &\text{3. The man in the moon came down quickly today.} \\
# &\text{4. A cat sat on the mat today patiently.}
# \end{aligned}
# }
# \]

🚀 If you find these models useful

Help me test my AI-Powered Quantum Network Monitor Assistant with quantum-ready security checks:

👉 Quantum Network Monitor

The full Open Source Code for the Quantum Network Monitor Service available at my github repos ( repos with NetworkMonitor in the name) : Source Code Quantum Network Monitor. You will also find the code I use to quantize the models if you want to do it yourself GGUFModelBuilder

💬 How to test:
Choose an AI assistant type:

TurboLLM (GPT-4.1-mini)
HugLLM (Hugginface Open-source models)
TestLLM (Experimental CPU-only)

What I’m Testing

I’m pushing the limits of small open-source models for AI network monitoring, specifically:

Function calling against live network services
How small can a model go while still handling:
- Automated Nmap security scans
- Quantum-readiness checks
- Network Monitoring tasks

🟡 TestLLM – Current experimental model (llama.cpp on 2 CPU threads on huggingface docker space):

✅ Zero-configuration setup
⏳ 30s load time (slow inference but no API costs) . No token limited as the cost is low.
🔧 Help wanted! If you’re into edge-device AI, let’s collaborate!

Other Assistants

🟢 TurboLLM – Uses gpt-4.1-mini :

**It performs very well but unfortunatly OpenAI charges per token. For this reason tokens usage is limited.
Create custom cmd processors to run .net code on Quantum Network Monitor Agents
Real-time network diagnostics and monitoring
Security Audits
Penetration testing (Nmap/Metasploit)

🔵 HugLLM – Latest Open-source models:

🌐 Runs on Hugging Face Inference API. Performs pretty well using the lastest models hosted on Novita.

💡 Example commands you could test:

"Give me info on my websites SSL certificate"
"Check if my server is using quantum safe encyption for communication"
"Run a comprehensive security audit on my server"
'"Create a cmd processor to .. (what ever you want)" Note you need to install a Quantum Network Monitor Agent to run the .net code from. This is a very flexible and powerful feature. Use with caution!

Final Word

I fund the servers used to create these model files, run the Quantum Network Monitor service, and pay for inference from Novita and OpenAI—all out of my own pocket. All the code behind the model creation and the Quantum Network Monitor project is open source. Feel free to use whatever you find helpful.

If you appreciate the work, please consider buying me a coffee ☕. Your support helps cover service costs and allows me to raise token limits for everyone.

I'm also open to job opportunities or sponsorship.

Thank you! 😊

Mungert
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