# Devstral Small 2 vs EXAONE 4.5 33B (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 and EXAONE 4.5 33B 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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Devstral Small 2 and EXAONE 4.5 33B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). EXAONE 4.5 33B leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Devstral Small 2: C 61, rank #60 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devstral-small-2.min.md
- EXAONE 4.5 33B: C 61, rank #61 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/exaone-4-5-33b.min.md
- 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 65; Risk, 60 against 50.
- EXAONE 4.5 33B, good for Researchers and students working on documents, Korean or multimodal agents who don't need commercial rights Ahead on Agent interface, 85 against 65.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | EXAONE 4.5 33B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 65 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 50 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 50 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | EXAONE 4.5 33B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | LG AI Research |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | EXAONE AI Model License Agreement 1.2 - NC (research and education only) |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-07-06 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | not read yet |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Devstral Small 2 +25: 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.); EXAONE 4.5 33B 65 (Memory 20, the smallest build at 4 bits is LG's IQ4_XS GGUF, 18.03 GB with the 2.57 GB projector, and 20.60 GB × 1.2 = 24.7 GB, within 32 GB.)
- Agent interface, EXAONE 4.5 33B +20: 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.); EXAONE 4.5 33B 85 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (5,930 characters).)
- Risk, Devstral Small 2 +10: Devstral Small 2 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.); EXAONE 4.5 33B 50 (File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.)