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Mistral vs. Vicuna

A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.

Attribute Mistral Vicuna
Developer Mistral AI UC Berkeley, CMU, Stanford, MBZUAI, UCSD
Current generation Mistral 3 –
Initial release 2023-09-27 2023-03-30
Instruct tuned Yes Yes
Coding Yes No
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License Apache 2.0 Noncommercial
Model sizes 3B, 8B, 14B, 675B (41B active) 13B
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Mistral

Mistral is a family of efficient open and hosted models spanning edge deployment through frontier-scale multimodal workloads. Mistral 3 is the current generation.

Mistral AI launched Mistral 7B in September 2023 and followed it with the Mixtral mixture-of-experts models and hosted Small and Large tiers. Mistral 3, released in December 2025 under Apache 2.0, includes dense 3B, 8B, and 14B Ministral models plus Mistral Large 3, a 675B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 41B active parameters. The family supports instruction tuning, reasoning variants, multilingual use, code, and image understanding.

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Vicuna

Released alongside Koala, Vicuna is one of many descendants of the Meta LLaMA model trained on dialogue data collected from the ShareGPT website. According to the authors, Vicuna achieves more than 90% of ChatGPT's quality in user preference tests, while vastly outperforming Alpaca. As of May 2023, Vicuna seems to be the heir apparent of the instruct-finetuned LLaMA model family, though it is also restricted from commercial use.

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