# Devstral Small 2 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 scores 61 (C) to Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507's 56.6 (C) 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 Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507's 56.6 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 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
- Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507: C 56.6, rank #113 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507.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 55; Documentation and upkeep, 46 against 26.
- Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507, good for Agents that want an instruct model with tool calling on one 24 GB GPU or a 32 GB Mac, with a plain licence and a 262,144-token context. Ahead on Agent interface, 75 against 65.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 75 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 26 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2025-09-17 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, Devstral Small 2 +20: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 26 (Model card 11 of 20, intended use, architecture, parameters and context are there, but limitations, named languages and a knowledge cut-off aren't.)
- Agent interface, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 +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.); Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 75 (Chat template 20, a Jinja template in tokenizer_config.json.)
- 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.); Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 55 (File safety 25, safetensors only and nothing from the repository runs to load it or build prompts.)