# Devstral Small 2 vs Inkling 2 Small (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 scores 61 (C) to Inkling 2 Small's 58.8 (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 Inkling 2 Small's 58.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Inkling 2 Small leads on risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Devstral Small 2: C 61, rank #60 of 161 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devstral-small-2.min.md
- Inkling 2 Small: C 58.8, rank #102 of 161 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small.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 40.
- Inkling 2 Small, good for Teams with 512 GB or more of datacentre GPU memory who want Thinking Machines' newest open multimodal agent model and can run a runtime's pre-release image. Ahead on Risk, 65 against 60; Agent interface, 85 against 65; Documentation and upkeep, 67 against 46.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Inkling 2 Small |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 40 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Inkling 2 Small |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-11-12 |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Devstral Small 2 +50: 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.); Inkling 2 Small 40 (Memory 0 of 30, the smallest build is Thinking Machines' NVFP4 checkpoint at 393.5 GB, about 472 GB with a fifth added, above the 256 GB line.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Inkling 2 Small +21: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); Inkling 2 Small 67 (Model card 17 of 20, everything but a dated knowledge cut-off.)
- Agent interface, Inkling 2 Small +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.); Inkling 2 Small 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.)
- Risk, Inkling 2 Small +5: Devstral Small 2 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.); Inkling 2 Small 65 (File safety 25, safetensors only and no repository code to run.)