# Agents-A1-4B vs Devstral Small 2 (slim)

> Agents-A1-4B and Devstral Small 2 score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Agents-A1-4B and Devstral Small 2 score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Devstral Small 2 leads on risk. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Agents-A1-4B: C 61, rank #39 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agents-a1-4b.min.md
- Devstral Small 2: C 61, rank #60 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devstral-small-2.min.md
- Agents-A1-4B, good for Local agent loops (search, research, tool calls) on a laptop, a small GPU or a phone-class machine, under a plain licence Ahead on Agent interface, 70 against 65.
- Devstral Small 2, good for Developers who want a dependable local coding agent on one consumer GPU or a 32 GB Mac Ahead on Risk, 60 against 55.

| Category | Agents-A1-4B | Devstral Small 2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 55 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 70 | 65 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 43 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agents-A1-4B | Devstral Small 2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | InternScience (Shanghai AI Laboratory) | Mistral AI |
| Last release | 2026-07-14 | 2026-07-15 |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Risk, Devstral Small 2 +5: Agents-A1-4B 55 (File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only and nothing from the repository runs.); Devstral Small 2 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.)
- Agent interface, Agents-A1-4B +5: Agents-A1-4B 70 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); Devstral Small 2 65 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (11,362 characters), with the tokenizer's tekken file for mistral-common.)