# Devstral Small 2 vs SmolLM3-3B (slim)

> Devstral Small 2 and SmolLM3-3B 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 SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on risk, 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
- SmolLM3-3B: C 61, rank #55 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.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.
- SmolLM3-3B, good for Agents that want a small, fully transparent tool-calling cousin on a laptop, CPU or edge device Ahead on Risk, 65 against 60; Agent interface, 80 against 65; Documentation and upkeep, 74 against 46.

| Category | Devstral Small 2 | SmolLM3-3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 60 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 65 | 80 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 46 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Devstral Small 2 | SmolLM3-3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | Hugging Face |
| Last release | 2026-07-15 | 2025-09-10 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, SmolLM3-3B +28: Devstral Small 2 46 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.); SmolLM3-3B 74 (Model card 14, it covers limitations, architecture, parameters, context and languages but has no intended-use section and leaves the June 2025 cut-off to the ch…)
- Agent interface, SmolLM3-3B +15: 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.); SmolLM3-3B 80 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.)
- 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.); SmolLM3-3B 85 (Memory 30, the smallest 4-bit build Hugging Face publishes is its own ONNX q4f16 at 2.1 GB, about 2.5 GB with the fifth added, and the full BF16 files that the…)
- Risk, SmolLM3-3B +5: Devstral Small 2 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.); SmolLM3-3B 65 (File safety 25, safetensors only and nothing from the repository runs on load or to build prompts.)