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Everything we've published on mistral across guides, agents, hardware reviews and glossary entries — 9 entries in total.
Guides (1)
- Local LLMs in 2026 — the complete benchmark report on portable hardwareAI Agents · 2026-04-30
Real-world benchmarks of Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen 2.5 72B, Mistral 7B, Llama 3 8B and Phi-3 mini across Raspberry Pi 5, Intel mini PCs, Apple Silicon Mac Mini, and Mac Studio. Tokens-per-second, agentic task pass rates, power and cost economics.
Hardware (5)
- Intel NUC 13 / Mini PC
Mini PCs at €300–600 with i5/i7 + 16–32 GB RAM. The sweet spot for self-hosted AI agents that need browser automation and decent local model performance.
- Geekom IT13 / generic Intel mini PC
Sub-€500 mini PC with i7-13620H, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD. The pragmatic alternative to the Intel NUC.
- MacBook Air M3 / M4
Fanless laptop with up to 24 GB unified memory. Runs Mistral 7B Q4 silently on the train. €1,299+.
- Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q (used)
€150–250 used Ryzen mini PC. 16 GB RAM, NVMe slot, runs Hermes Agent comfortably. The budget winner.
- Minisforum UM790 Pro
Ryzen 9 7940HS mini PC. 32–64 GB RAM. The best Linux mini PC value at €700-900.
Glossary (3)
- OpenRouter — LLM API gateway providing a unified interface across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral and many open models.
- Local LLM — Language model running on local hardware rather than via cloud API. Llama, Qwen, Mistral local variants.
- Mistral — European LLM developer. Mistral 7B is the canonical small open-weight model; Mistral Small 22B targets the mid-tier.