Devstral 2 and the new coding assistant from Mistral

By EngineAI Team | Published on December 16, 2025
Devstral 2 and the new coding assistant from Mistral
Along with Vibe CLI, the company's initial step into autonomous coding agents, French AI firm Mistral recently unveiled Devstral 2, the next generation of its coding-focused model family.

The specifics:

Despite being five times smaller, Mistral's 123B Devstral 2 nearly matches the highest open-weight model (Deepseek V3.2) with a score of 72.2% on the SWE-bench Verified.

Despite having only 24B parameters and running on a single GPU or laptop CPU, the Small 2 variation confronts other open-weight competitors.

Notably, Devstral 2 is distributed with a "modified" MIT license that restricts use to businesses with monthly revenue of at least $20 million.

Free to use under an Apache 2.0 license, Mistral's Vibe CLI is a terminal-native coding agent that can handle multi-file updates and scan codebases.

This month, Mistral will be shipped, and just days following the introduction of Mistral 3, there will be a robust Devstral release. The little form appears to be a true development upgrade for models that can be deployed locally and offline on consumer devices, while the main model approaches the open frontier for coding.

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