Side-by-side comparison of DBRX Instruct (Databricks · USA) and Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DBRX Instruct is rated conditional; Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is conditional. They part ways on licence: DBRX Instruct is "Databricks Open", Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is "Apache 2.0".
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| Verdict | Conditional 132B MoE (36B active). Databricks Open Model License is bespoke — allows commercial use with acceptable-use policy and a 700M-MAU-style cap. Read the licence carefully; not Apache 2.0. | Conditional Based on published licence terms, Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is an EU-origin open-weight model under standard Apache 2.0 — commercial deployment and self-hosting are permitted without field-of-use restrictions. Training-data opacity is the primary EU AI Act Art. 53 gap, but the French controller, absence of CLOUD Act exposure, and Mistral's published DPA make this a strong baseline for regulated EU workloads. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Databricks Open | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | With caps | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | 7/100 |
| Speed | — | 193 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.25/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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