# Devstral Small 2 vs Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (slim)

> Qwen3.5-397B-A17B scores 64.1 (B) to Devstral Small 2's 61 (C) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Qwen3.5-397B-A17B scores 64.1 (B) on agent readiness against Devstral Small 2's 61 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Devstral Small 2 leads on reach, risk 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
- Qwen3.5-397B-A17B: B 64.1, rank #23 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-397b-a17b.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 70; Risk, 60 against 55; Documentation and upkeep, 46 against 34.
- Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, good for Agents with access to an 8-GPU server, or calling a hosted endpoint, that want the strongest open Qwen3.5 with vision and a plain licence. Ahead on Agent interface, 70 against 65.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Qwen3.5-397B-A17B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 70 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 34 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Qwen3.5-397B-A17B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-02-16 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Devstral Small 2 +20: 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.); Qwen3.5-397B-A17B 70 (Memory scores 0, since even the smallest 4-bit build, LM Studio's MLX 4-bit at 223.9 GB, needs about 269 GB with a fifth added, and Alibaba's own GPTQ-Int4 abou…)
- Documentation and upkeep, Devstral Small 2 +12: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); Qwen3.5-397B-A17B 34 (The card covers five of the seven items and misses limitations and a cut-off (14).)
- 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.); Qwen3.5-397B-A17B 55 (Safetensors only with no repository code run on load or to build prompts gives file safety 25, and files in the Qwen organisation the publisher's GitHub links t…)
- Agent interface, Qwen3.5-397B-A17B +5: 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.); Qwen3.5-397B-A17B 70 (The template ships in the repository (20) and renders several tool calls per turn for a model trained for tool use (20).)