# Devstral Small 2 vs Granite 4.2 8B (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 and Granite 4.2 8B 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 Granite 4.2 8B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Granite 4.2 8B leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. 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
- Granite 4.2 8B: C 61, rank #66 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-8b.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 Risk, 60 against 55.
- Granite 4.2 8B, good for Agents that want a documented, signed, Apache 2.0 reasoning model with tool calling on a 16 GB machine Ahead on Reach, 95 against 90; Agent interface, 85 against 65; Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 46.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 95 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 92 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | IBM |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-10-20 |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, Granite 4.2 8B +46: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); Granite 4.2 8B 92 (Model card 17, Intended use (best for), limitations (ethical considerations and limitations), architecture, parameters (8B), context length (128K native) and 12…)
- Agent interface, Granite 4.2 8B +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.); Granite 4.2 8B 85 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, with roles, tools, tool responses, the thinking switch and low effort.)
- Reach, Granite 4.2 8B +5: 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.); Granite 4.2 8B 95 (Memory 30, IBM's own 4-bit MLX build granite-4.2-8b-q4-mlx is 4.95 GB, and 4.95 GB × 1.2 = 5.9 GB, within 8 GB.)
- Risk, Devstral Small 2 +5: Devstral Small 2 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.); Granite 4.2 8B 55 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).)