Mistral 7B on the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB at our dedicated hosting delivers strong unit economics thanks to FP8 native support and moderate concurrency.
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Throughput
Mistral 7B FP8 on 5060 Ti:
- Batch 1: ~110 t/s
- Batch 8: ~570 t/s aggregate
- Batch 16: ~650 t/s aggregate
- Peak AWQ: ~900 t/s aggregate
Monthly Capacity
At 50% sustained utilisation (realistic for production with traffic variability):
- Output tokens: ~840M/month
- Input tokens (3:1 ratio): ~2.5B/month
- Total blended: ~3.4B tokens/month
API Comparison
Mistral’s hosted API or Together.ai’s Mistral 7B blended rate: ~$0.20/M.
Equivalent API cost: 3.4B × $0.20/M = ~$680/month.
| Alternative | Your Traffic Cost |
|---|---|
| Together Mistral 7B | ~$680 |
| Mistral API direct | ~$680-900 |
| GPT-4o-mini equivalent quality | ~$735 |
Break-Even
Dedicated 5060 Ti at ~£300/month reaches break-even around 45-50% utilisation against Together. Above that, dedicated wins on cost.
For bursty workloads below 30% utilisation, API serverless is cheaper. For steady production traffic, dedicated.
Bundle Economics
Mistral 7B uses about 10 GB of the 16 GB. Remaining 6 GB hosts:
- BGE-M3 embedder (~2 GB) – replaces OpenAI embeddings
- BGE reranker (~2 GB) – replaces Cohere Rerank
- Whisper Turbo (~2 GB) – replaces OpenAI transcription
Running all three on the same card at API equivalent cost:
- OpenAI embeddings: +$20-50/month for moderate volume
- Cohere Rerank: +$100-1000/month depending on volume
- OpenAI Whisper API: +$0.006/minute = varies
Total bundle API replacement typically saves £200-1,500/month for RAG-heavy workloads.
Mistral 7B at Predictable Cost
Fixed monthly UK hosting for a popular production LLM.
Order the RTX 5060 Ti 16GBSee also: vs Together.ai, SaaS RAG use case.
