# Devstral Small 2 vs LFM3-Audio-2B (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 and LFM3-Audio-2B 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 LFM3-Audio-2B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). LFM3-Audio-2B 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
- LFM3-Audio-2B: C 61, rank #70 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lfm3-audio-2b.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 40.
- LFM3-Audio-2B, good for Voice agents on a laptop or phone that need speech in, speech out and tool calls from one small model Ahead on Agent interface, 85 against 65; Documentation and upkeep, 52 against 46.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | LFM3-Audio-2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 80 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 40 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 52 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | LFM3-Audio-2B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |

Why the edge:
- Risk, Devstral Small 2 +20: Devstral Small 2 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.); LFM3-Audio-2B 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).)
- Agent interface, LFM3-Audio-2B +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.); LFM3-Audio-2B 85 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (9,328 characters), with roles, audio, tools, deferred tools and tool results.)
- 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.); LFM3-Audio-2B 80 (Memory 30, Liquid's Q4_K_M GGUF is 1.10 GB with its 0.17 GB projector file, and 1.27 GB × 1.2 = 1.5 GB, which fits 8 GB, well inside the 16 GB line.)
- Documentation and upkeep, LFM3-Audio-2B +6: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); LFM3-Audio-2B 52 (Model card 17, Intended use (local agents, tool calling, structured outputs, fine-tuning), limitations (not recommended for agentic coding or complex multi-step…)