MistralOpen weightsDecember 9, 2025

Devstral 2

Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis

Source:Artificial Analysis scrapeType:Open weights
Intelligence
19

score

Devstral 2 scores 19 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average …

vs class avg: 7

Speed
76.3

output tokens/sec

Devstral 2 generates output at 76.3 tokens per second (based on Mistral's API), which is below …

Latency
1.22s

TTFT

Devstral 2 has a time to first token (TTFT) of 1.22s (based on Mistral's API), which is better than …

Input Price#1/39
$0.00
Output Price#1/39
$0.00

Decision Overview

Ethen's intelligence-driven routing assessment for this model

Overall verdict

Capable everyday model

Good for routine tasks; route complex reasoning and premium workloads to stronger models.

Best for

  • Routine Q&A
  • Content summarization
  • Classification
  • Light coding
  • Interactive turn-taking

Weak or unsuitable

  • Complex reasoning
  • Agentic workflows
  • Research-grade analysis

Routing recommendation

1

Use the fit matrix to compare against cheaper routes when volume rises

Cost pressure

Competitive pricing — $0.00 / M input, $0.00 / M output. Cost pressure is low enough for sustained production use.

Model-fit matrix

Use this model where capability pays for itself; route away where volume, latency, or budget dominate.

Use caseFitReasonRouting note
Complex reasoning & agentic workflowsModerateIntelligence score 19 handles routine reasoning but may struggle with open-ended agentic tasks.Route simpler sub-tasks here; keep hard reasoning on a stronger model.
High-volume chat & customer-facingStrongOutput speed 76.3 tokens/sec is adequate for chat.Suitable for chat; monitor latency under concurrent load.
Latency-sensitive applicationsStrongTTFT 1.22s — adequate latency for most interactive use cases.Suitable for real-time; test with your specific workload.
Cost-sensitive pipelinesExcellentOutput pricing at $0.00 is very competitive for high-volume workloads.Excellent for budget-constrained pipelines; enable caching to reduce costs further.

Cost pressure

Low

Pricing is competitive — input $0.00, output $0.00. Suitable for sustained production use.

Cheaper substitutes

No cheaper substitute is supported by the current price data.

Route away when

  • Extreme scale where even low costs matter

Highlights

Key benchmark results at a glance.

Intelligence

Intelligence position

Open section

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Devstral 2 scores 19 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among other open weight non-reasoning models of similar size (median: 7).

0204060Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 6060AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 5555AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GLM-5.2 (max): 5151?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 5050GGemini 3.5 FlashMiniMax-M3: 4444?MiniMax-M3DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 4444DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 4444KKimi K2.6Muse Spark: 4343?Muse SparkNemotron 3 Ultra: 3838NNemotron 3 UltraGrok 4.3 (high): 3838xGrok 4.3 (high)gpt-oss-120b (high): 2424AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Devstral 2: 1919?Devstral 2

Speed

Speed position

Open section

Output tokens per second · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Devstral 2 generates output at 76.3 tokens per second (based on Mistral's API), which is below average compared to other open weight non-reasoning models of similar size (median: 85.6 t/s).

088175263350gpt-oss-120b (high): 316316AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 248248NNemotron 3 UltraGLM-5.2 (max): 216216?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 192192GGemini 3.5 FlashLing 2.6 Flash: 181181?Ling 2.6 FlashGrok 4.3 (high): 164164xGrok 4.3 (high)Llama 4 Scout: 109109MLlama 4 ScoutMiniMax-M3: 9595?MiniMax-M3Qwen3 Coder Next: 8989QQwen3 Coder NextGPT-5.5 (xhigh): 8888AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Llama 3.3 70B: 8787MLlama 3.3 70BDevstral 2: 7676?Devstral 2

Context, Cost & Pricing

Price/value position

Open section

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Pricing is competitive — input $0.00, output $0.00. Suitable for sustained production use.

$0.00$1.00$2.00$3.00$4.00$5.00DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): $0.04$0.04DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)gpt-oss-120b (high): $0.06$0.06AIgpt-oss-120b (high)MiniMax-M3: $0.12$0.12?MiniMax-M3Grok 4.3 (high): $0.14$0.14xGrok 4.3 (high)Nemotron 3 Ultra: $0.24$0.24NNemotron 3 UltraKimi K2.6: $0.35$0.35KKimi K2.6GLM-5.2 (max): $0.37$0.37?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: $0.59$0.59GGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5 (xhigh): $0.86$0.86AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): $2.75$2.75AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…

Intelligence & Quality

Benchmark scores and quality indices measuring model capability.

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct. · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

-50050Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 4040AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…Gemini 3.5 Flash: 2323GGemini 3.5 FlashGPT-5.5 (xhigh): 2020AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Grok 4.3 (high): 1818xGrok 4.3 (high)Kimi K2.6: 6.46.4KKimi K2.6Muse Spark: 4.14.1?Muse SparkGLM-5.2 (max): 44?GLM-5.2 (max)MiniMax-M3: 1.41.4?MiniMax-M3Nemotron 3 Ultra: -0.8-0.8NNemotron 3 UltraDeepSeek V4 Pro (max): -10-10DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Devstral 2: -46.2-46.2?Devstral 2

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0204060Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 6060AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 5555AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GLM-5.2 (max): 5151?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 5050GGemini 3.5 FlashMiniMax-M3: 4444?MiniMax-M3DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 4444DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 4444KKimi K2.6Muse Spark: 4343?Muse SparkNemotron 3 Ultra: 3838NNemotron 3 UltraGrok 4.3 (high): 3838xGrok 4.3 (high)Devstral 2: 1919?Devstral 2

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2, 𝜏³-Banking, Terminal-Bench v2.1, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GPQA Diamond, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0204060Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 6060AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 5555AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GLM-5.2 (max): 5151?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 5050GGemini 3.5 FlashMiniMax-M3: 4444?MiniMax-M3DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 4444DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 4444KKimi K2.6Muse Spark: 4343?Muse SparkNemotron 3 Ultra: 3838NNemotron 3 UltraGrok 4.3 (high): 3838xGrok 4.3 (high)Devstral 2: 1919?Devstral 2

Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score

Openness Index assesses model openness on a 0 to 100 normalized scale (higher is more open) · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

050100Nemotron 3 Ultra: 8383NNemotron 3 UltraDeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 5050DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)GLM-5.2 (max): 4444?GLM-5.2 (max)Qwen3 Coder Next: 4242QQwen3 Coder Nextgpt-oss-120b (high): 3939AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Ling 2.6 Flash: 3939?Ling 2.6 FlashLlama 3.3 70B: 3939MLlama 3.3 70BKimi K2.6: 3333KKimi K2.6MiniMax-M3: 3333?MiniMax-M3Llama 4 Scout: 2828MLlama 4 Scout

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0204060Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 6060AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 5555AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GLM-5.2 (max): 5151?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 5050GGemini 3.5 FlashMiniMax-M3: 4444?MiniMax-M3DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 4444DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 4444KKimi K2.6Muse Spark: 4343?Muse SparkNemotron 3 Ultra: 3838NNemotron 3 UltraGrok 4.3 (high): 3838xGrok 4.3 (high)Devstral 2: 1919?Devstral 2

Speed & Throughput

Output tokens per second and generation throughput.

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

088175263350gpt-oss-120b (high): 316316AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 248248NNemotron 3 UltraGLM-5.2 (max): 216216?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 192192GGemini 3.5 FlashLing 2.6 Flash: 181181?Ling 2.6 FlashGrok 4.3 (high): 164164xGrok 4.3 (high)Llama 4 Scout: 109109MLlama 4 ScoutMiniMax-M3: 9595?MiniMax-M3Qwen3 Coder Next: 8989QQwen3 Coder NextGPT-5.5 (xhigh): 8888AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Devstral 2: 7676?Devstral 2

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

088175263350gpt-oss-120b (high): 316316AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 248248NNemotron 3 UltraGLM-5.2 (max): 216216?GLM-5.2 (max)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 192192GGemini 3.5 FlashGrok 4.3 (high): 164164xGrok 4.3 (high)MiniMax-M3: 9595?MiniMax-M3GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 8888AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Devstral 2: 7676?Devstral 2Kimi K2.6: 7676KKimi K2.6DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 7272DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)

Latency & Response Time

Time to first token and end-to-end response latency.

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, including reasoning model 'thinking' time · Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0s2.5s5s7.5s10sClaude Fable 5 (with fallback): 7.1s7.1sAClaude Fable 5 (with fal…DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 6.9s6.9sDDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 6.6s6.6sKKimi K2.6Devstral 2: 6.6s6.6s?Devstral 2Llama 3.3 70B: 5.8s5.8sMLlama 3.3 70BGPT-5.5 (xhigh): 5.7s5.7sAIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Qwen3 Coder Next: 5.6s5.6sQQwen3 Coder NextMiniMax-M3: 5.2s5.2s?MiniMax-M3Llama 4 Scout: 4.6s4.6sMLlama 4 ScoutGrok 4.3 (high): 3s3sxGrok 4.3 (high)

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

Seconds to first answer token received · Accounts for reasoning model 'thinking' time · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0s25s50s75s100sDeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 61s61sDDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 58s58sKKimi K2.6MiniMax-M3: 21s21s?MiniMax-M3GLM-5.2 (max): 9.3s9.3s?GLM-5.2 (max)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 9.2s9.2sNNemotron 3 Ultragpt-oss-120b (high): 6.3s6.3sAIgpt-oss-120b (high)Llama 4 Scout: 0s0sMLlama 4 ScoutDevstral 2: 0s0s?Devstral 2Ling 2.6 Flash: 0s0s?Ling 2.6 FlashLlama 3.3 70B: 0s0sMLlama 3.3 70B

Context, Cost & Pricing

Context window size, cost per task, and token pricing.

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

02.5M5M7.5M10MLlama 4 Scout: 10M10MMLlama 4 ScoutGemini 3.5 Flash: 1M1MGGemini 3.5 FlashClaude Fable 5 (with fallback): 1M1MAClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GLM-5.2 (max): 1M1M?GLM-5.2 (max)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 1M1MDDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Grok 4.3 (high): 1M1MxGrok 4.3 (high)MiniMax-M3: 1M1M?MiniMax-M3GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 922k922kAIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 262k262kNNemotron 3 UltraMuse Spark: 262k262k?Muse SparkDevstral 2: 256k256k?Devstral 2

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task, segmented by token type. Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

00.51Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 0.40.4AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 0.10.1AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 0.10.1GGemini 3.5 FlashGLM-5.2 (max): 00?GLM-5.2 (max)Kimi K2.6: 00KKimi K2.6Nemotron 3 Ultra: 00NNemotron 3 UltraQwen3 Coder Next: 00QQwen3 Coder NextMiniMax-M3: 00?MiniMax-M3Grok 4.3 (high): 00xGrok 4.3 (high)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 00DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

$0.00$1.00$2.00$3.00$4.00$5.00Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): $2.75$2.75AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): $0.86$0.86AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Gemini 3.5 Flash: $0.59$0.59GGemini 3.5 FlashGLM-5.2 (max): $0.37$0.37?GLM-5.2 (max)Kimi K2.6: $0.35$0.35KKimi K2.6Nemotron 3 Ultra: $0.24$0.24NNemotron 3 UltraGrok 4.3 (high): $0.14$0.14xGrok 4.3 (high)MiniMax-M3: $0.12$0.12?MiniMax-M3gpt-oss-120b (high): $0.06$0.06AIgpt-oss-120b (high)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): $0.04$0.04DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0200400600Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 508508AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 132132AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 114114GGemini 3.5 FlashQwen3 Coder Next: 3939QQwen3 Coder NextNemotron 3 Ultra: 3434NNemotron 3 UltraGLM-5.2 (max): 3333?GLM-5.2 (max)Kimi K2.6: 2525KKimi K2.6MiniMax-M3: 1515?MiniMax-M3Grok 4.3 (high): 1313xGrok 4.3 (high)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 7.27.2DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens) · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0250k500k750k1MClaude Fable 5 (with fallback): 6161AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 3636AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)Gemini 3.5 Flash: 1111GGemini 3.5 FlashGLM-5.2 (max): 6.16.1?GLM-5.2 (max)Kimi K2.6: 5.15.1KKimi K2.6Grok 4.3 (high): 44xGrok 4.3 (high)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 3.63.6NNemotron 3 UltraQwen3 Coder Next: 1.91.9QQwen3 Coder NextLlama 3.3 70B: 1.91.9MLlama 3.3 70BMiniMax-M3: 1.61.6?MiniMax-M3cache Hitinputoutput

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average decode time (minutes) per task; excludes TTFT and overhead time · Lower is better · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0510Kimi K2.6: 8.28.2KKimi K2.6DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 6.76.7DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Claude Fable 5 (with fallback): 4.84.8AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…MiniMax-M3: 44?MiniMax-M3GPT-5.5 (xhigh): 33AIGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GLM-5.2 (max): 2.82.8?GLM-5.2 (max)Qwen3 Coder Next: 2.62.6QQwen3 Coder NextGemini 3.5 Flash: 2.22.2GGemini 3.5 Flashgpt-oss-120b (high): 1.91.9AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Grok 4.3 (high): 1.61.6xGrok 4.3 (high)Devstral 2: 1.31.3?Devstral 2

Architecture & Scale

Model size, parameters, and architectural details.

Model Size: Total and Active Parameters

Comparison between total model parameters and parameters active during inference · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

0250k500k750k1MDeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 1.6k1.6kDDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)Kimi K2.6: 1k1kKKimi K2.6GLM-5.2 (max): 753753?GLM-5.2 (max)Nemotron 3 Ultra: 550550NNemotron 3 UltraMiniMax-M3: 428428?MiniMax-M3Devstral 2: 125125?Devstral 2gpt-oss-120b (high): 117117AIgpt-oss-120b (high)Llama 4 Scout: 109109MLlama 4 ScoutLing 2.6 Flash: 107107?Ling 2.6 FlashQwen3 Coder Next: 8080QQwen3 Coder Nextpassive Paramsactive Params

Additional Benchmarks

Further benchmark and comparison data.

Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average number of output tokens used to run one task in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Evaluation results measured independently by Artificial Analysis

Source and methodology are summarized below

Chart source and provenance are listed in Methodology & sources below.

05000100001500020000Qwen3 Coder Next: 1535515355QQwen3 Coder NextLing 2.6 Flash: 1307013070?Ling 2.6 FlashMiniMax-M3: 1162311623?MiniMax-M3Gemini 3.5 Flash: 98199819GGemini 3.5 FlashNemotron 3 Ultra: 77977797NNemotron 3 UltraClaude Fable 5 (with fallback): 76967696AClaude Fable 5 (with fal…gpt-oss-120b (high): 75717571AIgpt-oss-120b (high)DeepSeek V4 Pro (max): 72437243DDeepSeek V4 Pro (max)GLM-5.2 (max): 60896089?GLM-5.2 (max)Devstral 2: 59465946?Devstral 2

Specifications

Technical Specifications

Devstral 2 scores 19 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among other open weight non-reasoning models of similar size (median: 7). Devstral 2 generates output at 76.3 tokens per second (based on Mistral's API), which is below average compared to other open weight non-reasoning models of similar size (median: 85.6 t/s).

Devstral 2

Model type
Open weights
Reasoning
No
Input modalities
Devstral 2 supports text input.
Output modalities
Devstral 2 supports text output.
Context window
260k tokens
Open weights / source
Yes, Devstral 2 is open weights. The model weights are publicly available and can be downloaded for self-hosting.
Parameters
Devstral 2 has 125 billion parameters.
License
Devstral 2 is released under the Modified MIT License license. Commercial use requires a separate license agreement.
API availability
Yes, Devstral 2 is available via API through 1 provider.

Methodology & Provenance

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Frequently Asked Questions