# Devstral Small 2 vs Laguna XS 2.1 (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 and Laguna XS 2.1 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 Laguna XS 2.1 score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Laguna XS 2.1 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
- Laguna XS 2.1: C 61, rank #46 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-xs-2-1.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 80; Risk, 60 against 55.
- Laguna XS 2.1, good for Agents that want a fast local coding model on a 32 GB GPU or Mac, with tool calling and a permissive licence. Ahead on Agent interface, 85 against 65.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Laguna XS 2.1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 80 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Laguna XS 2.1 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Poolside |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | OpenMDW-1.1 |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-08-19 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-21 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, Laguna XS 2.1 +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.); Laguna XS 2.1 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.)
- Reach, Devstral Small 2 +10: 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.); Laguna XS 2.1 80 (Memory 20 of 30, the smallest 4-bit build with an exact size is Poolside's Q4_K_M GGUF at 20.27 GB, the same file as Ollama's default, which needs 32 GB with a…)
- 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.); Laguna XS 2.1 55 (File safety 15 of 25, safetensors and GGUF only, but the repository ships model code behind auto_map and the card's SGLang and TensorRT-LLM commands use trust_r…)