# Devstral Small 2 vs MiniCPM-o 4.5 (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 and MiniCPM-o 4.5 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 MiniCPM-o 4.5 score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). MiniCPM-o 4.5 leads on 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
- MiniCPM-o 4.5: C 61, rank #48 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm-o-4-5.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 40; Agent interface, 65 against 35.
- MiniCPM-o 4.5, good for Agents that need a local model to see, hear and speak on a laptop or a single small GPU, with a plain licence. Ahead on Documentation and upkeep, 66 against 46.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | MiniCPM-o 4.5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 40 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 35 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | MiniCPM-o 4.5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | OpenBMB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0; built from Qwen3-8B, SigLIP2, Whisper-medium and CosyVoice2, all Apache 2.0 on their Hub cards |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-10-24 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, Devstral Small 2 +30: 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.); MiniCPM-o 4.5 35 (Chat template 20, a Jinja template in the tokenizer config.)
- 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.); MiniCPM-o 4.5 40 (File safety 5 of 25, two pickle files sit in the speech stage and the documented load runs repository code.)
- Documentation and upkeep, MiniCPM-o 4.5 +20: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); MiniCPM-o 4.5 66 (Model card 11 of 20, limitations, context length and a knowledge cut-off are missing.)