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Devstral Small
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by Mistral
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RANKED #14 OF 20 CODE · OVERALL #363 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 50 VOICES ·
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Mistral coding agent model for repository tasks and software engineering workflows
HAPPY9.8
8 mentions
SAD5.2
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 26 voices in this window
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Devstral Small once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
24B parameters, a Q4 file is about 14 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$450 NEWQ4_K_M, ~22 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1,750 NEWQ4_K_M to Q5_K_M, ~45 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (64GB)
64 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$3,200 USEDFP16 / Q8_0, ~30 tok/s, full 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN DEVSTRAL SMALL?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Devstral Small takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB | FULL POWERApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (64GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~23 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ | ~17 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~68 S★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~50 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~6.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.4 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~19 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~14 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Devstral Small yet to call it. We found 50 posts but people did not say much either way.
38 POSTS · 12 COMMENTS · REDDIT · LEMMY · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with code models like this one.
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- REDDIT · 2025-05-21 · 237 UPVOTESIntroducing Devstral Small 24B
Introducing Devstral Small 24B
- REDDIT · 2025-07-30 · 189 UPVOTESAnnouncing Codestral 25.08 and the complete Mistral Coding Stack for Enterprises
Announcing Codestral 25.08 and the complete Mistral Coding Stack for Enterprises
- REDDIT · 2025-07-10 · 107 UPVOTESMistral - Devstral-Small-2507 GGUFs out now!
Mistral - Devstral-Small-2507 GGUFs out now!
- REDDIT · 2025-07-10 · 90 UPVOTESIntroducing Devstral Small 1.1 and Devstral Medium
Introducing Devstral Small 1.1 and Devstral Medium
- REDDIT · 2026-04-20 · 72 UPVOTESI benchmarked 21 local LLMs on a MacBook Air M5 for code quality AND speed
I benchmarked 21 local LLMs on a MacBook Air M5 for code quality AND speed
- REDDIT · 2025-05-21 · 36 UPVOTESDevstral + Vision Dynamic GGUFs out now!
Devstral + Vision Dynamic GGUFs out now!
- REDDIT · 2025-07-15 · 35 UPVOTESDevstral Small VibeCoded my own Deep Research assistant. Thanks Mistral!
Devstral Small VibeCoded my own Deep Research assistant. Thanks Mistral!
- REDDIT · 2026-02-23 · 34 UPVOTESMistral API quota and rate limits pools analysis for Free Tier plan (20.02.2026)
Mistral API quota and rate limits pools analysis for Free Tier plan (20.02.2026)
- REDDIT · 2025-06-14 · 33 UPVOTESMagistral Small with Vision
Magistral Small with Vision
- REDDIT · 2025-07-11 · 32 UPVOTESAdded Devstral Medium and Small tests to Rival to compare
Added Devstral Medium and Small tests to Rival to compare
- LEMMY · 2025-05-24 · 20 UPVOTESmistralai/Devstral-Small-2505 · Hugging Face
mistralai/Devstral-Small-2505 · Hugging Face
- REDDIT · 2025-07-26 · 18 UPVOTESAny good models for coding (Python and JS) to run on a 16 GB 5080?
Any good models for coding (Python and JS) to run on a 16 GB 5080?