# Devstral Small 2 vs Qwen3.8-27B (slim)

> Qwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (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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Qwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against Devstral Small 2's 61 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Devstral Small 2 leads on 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
- Qwen3.8-27B: B 68.6, rank #11 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-27b.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 36.
- Qwen3.8-27B, good for Agents that want a capable open model with vision on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac, with the widest runtime support and a plain licence. Ahead on Agent interface, 70 against 65.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Qwen3.8-27B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 36 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Qwen3.8-27B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-08-14 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, Devstral Small 2 +10: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); Qwen3.8-27B 36 (Model card 11 of 20, intended use, architecture, parameters and context are there, but limitations, languages and a knowledge cut-off aren't.)
- 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.); Qwen3.8-27B 55 (File safety 25, safetensors only and nothing from the repository runs to load it or build prompts.)
- Agent interface, Qwen3.8-27B +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.); Qwen3.8-27B 70 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.)