# Devstral Small 2 vs LFM2.5-2.6B (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 scores 61 (C) to LFM2.5-2.6B's 50.3 (D) 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 LFM2.5-2.6B's 50.3 (D), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. LFM2.5-2.6B leads on 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
- LFM2.5-2.6B: D 50.3, rank #146 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm2-5-2-6b.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 50.
- LFM2.5-2.6B, good for Agents that want a small local helper for tool calls, extraction and RAG on a laptop, phone or CPU, at organisations under the licence's revenue threshold Ahead on Agent interface, 75 against 65; Documentation and upkeep, 57 against 46.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | LFM2.5-2.6B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 50 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 75 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | LFM2.5-2.6B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Liquid AI |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | LFM Open License v1.0 (free commercial use below $10M annual revenue) |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-11-03 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, LFM2.5-2.6B +11: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); LFM2.5-2.6B 57 (The model card earns 17, with everything but a knowledge cut-off.)
- 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.); LFM2.5-2.6B 50 (File safety earns 25, safetensors and GGUF only, and nothing from the repository runs to load it or build prompts.)
- Agent interface, LFM2.5-2.6B +10: 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.); LFM2.5-2.6B 75 (The chat template earns 20 for chat_template.jinja in the repository.)