# Arete-27B vs Devstral Small 2 (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 scores 61 (C) to Arete-27B's 55.1 (C) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Devstral Small 2 scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Arete-27B's 55.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Arete-27B leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Arete-27B: C 55.1, rank #123 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arete-27b.min.md
- Devstral Small 2: C 61, rank #60 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devstral-small-2.min.md
- Arete-27B, good for Agents that want Qwen3.8-27B's coding and tool use without its handling of politically sensitive topics, on a 24 GB card or a 128 GB machine Ahead on Documentation and upkeep, 63 against 46.
- Devstral Small 2, good for Developers who want a dependable local coding agent on one consumer GPU or a 32 GB Mac Ahead on Reach, 90 against 50; Risk, 60 against 55; Agent interface, 65 against 60.

| Category | Arete-27B | Devstral Small 2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 50 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 55 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 60 | 65 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 63 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Arete-27B | Devstral Small 2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Nous Research | Mistral AI |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-07-15 |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Devstral Small 2 +40: Arete-27B 50 (Memory 10, the only build from Nous Research is the 54.7 GB BF16 release, which needs about 66 GB and fits the reference machine.); Devstral Small 2 90 (Memory 25, the smallest build at 4 bits from a runtime's own library is Ollama's devstral-small-2 at Q4_K_M, 15 GB, and 15 GB × 1.2 = 18 GB, within 24 GB.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Arete-27B +17: Arete-27B 63 (Model card 8, no limitations, context length, languages or cut-off.); Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.)
- Risk, Devstral Small 2 +5: Arete-27B 55 (File safety 25, safetensors only and no remote code.); Devstral Small 2 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.)
- Agent interface, Devstral Small 2 +5: Arete-27B 60 (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.)