# Devstral Small 2 vs Recursive Flint (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 and Recursive Flint 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 Recursive Flint score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Recursive Flint 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
- Recursive Flint: C 61, rank #54 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.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 85.
- Recursive Flint, good for Agents doing repository work on a 32 to 48 GB Mac or NVIDIA box that want a sparse coder with documented tool calls and a plain licence. Ahead on Agent interface, 90 against 65; Documentation and upkeep, 67 against 46.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Recursive Flint |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 90 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Recursive Flint |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Recursive |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-10-21 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, Recursive Flint +25: 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.); Recursive Flint 90 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository and inside both GGUFs.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Recursive Flint +21: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); Recursive Flint 67 (Model card 17 of 20, everything but languages.)
- Reach, Devstral Small 2 +5: 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.); Recursive Flint 85 (Memory 20 of 30, Recursive's MLX INT4 build is 22.6 GB, or 27.1 GB with a fifth added, which fits 32 GB, and every other 4-bit build lands in the same band.)