# Devstral Small 2 vs Ripple-65B Preview (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 scores 61 (C) to Ripple-65B Preview's 53.3 (D) 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 Ripple-65B Preview's 53.3 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Ripple-65B Preview 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
- Ripple-65B Preview: D 53.3, rank #135 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ripple-65b-preview.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 45; Risk, 60 against 55.
- Ripple-65B Preview, good for Teams with Blackwell GPUs or a DGX Spark who want an Apache 2.0 coding model to try for terminal and agentic coding work, and can run the publisher's code to serve it. Ahead on Agent interface, 75 against 65.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | Ripple-65B Preview |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 45 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 75 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 49 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | Ripple-65B Preview |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Ricursive Intelligence |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2026-11-04 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | not read yet |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Devstral Small 2 +45: 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.); Ripple-65B Preview 45 (Memory 10 of 30, the smallest 4-bit build is Ricursive's NVFP4 at 57.2 GB, 68.7 GB with a fifth added, which is over 64 GB and fits our reference machine.)
- Agent interface, Ripple-65B Preview +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.); Ripple-65B Preview 75 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository.)
- 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.); Ripple-65B Preview 55 (File safety 15, safetensors only, less 10 because the documented way to run it loads Ricursive's Python.)