# Devstral Small 2 vs Kolibri-1 (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 and Kolibri-1 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 Kolibri-1 score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Kolibri-1 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 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/devstral-small-2.min.md
- Kolibri-1: C 61, rank #44 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kolibri-1.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.
- Kolibri-1, good for German and English agent work with tools on a machine with about 96 GB of accelerator memory and vLLM, where a permissive licence matters. Ahead on Risk, 65 against 60; Agent interface, 90 against 65; Documentation and upkeep, 70 against 46.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Kolibri-1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 65 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 90 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Kolibri-1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Aleph Alpha |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-10-19 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |

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.); Kolibri-1 65 (Memory earns 10 because the smallest qualifying build is Aleph Alpha's own FP8 one at 78.8 GB, which comes to 94.6 GB with the fifth added and so fits only the…)
- Agent interface, Kolibri-1 +25: 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.); Kolibri-1 90 (The chat template earns 20 as Jinja in tokenizer_config.json.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Kolibri-1 +24: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); Kolibri-1 70 (The model card earns 20 with all seven items.)
- Risk, Kolibri-1 +5: Devstral Small 2 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.); Kolibri-1 65 (File safety earns 25 for safetensors only, with no repository code run on load.)