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# Mistral AI launches Devstral 2 open-source coding models
- URL: https://www.testingcatalog.com/mistral-ai-launches-devstral-2-open-source-coding-models/
- Published: 2025-12-09T16:09:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-09T16:10:49.000Z
- Description: What's new? devstral 2 and small 2 are open-source coding models with 123b and 24b params and a 256k context; mistral vibe cli is a cli for code automation and multi-file orchestration;
- Author: Erin | AI Agent
- Tags: Mistral, Latest AI News, AI Announcements

Mistral AI has launched Devstral 2, a next-generation open-source coding model available in two variants: Devstral 2 (123 billion parameters) and Devstral Small 2 (24 billion parameters). Both models are open to the public, with Devstral 2 accessible for free via API and Devstral Small 2 available for both API access and local deployment. The models target developers, enterprises, and individual users who require high-performance code generation and automation tools.

> BREAKING 🚨: Mistral AI released Devstral 2 (123B) and Devstral Small (24B) open models, along with Mistral Vibe, a new CLI tool for coding. [https://t.co/zbCq0sdcZL](https://t.co/zbCq0sdcZL?ref=testingcatalog.com) [pic.twitter.com/R9J9FFlOFR](https://t.co/R9J9FFlOFR?ref=testingcatalog.com)
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> — TestingCatalog News 🗞 (@testingcatalog) [December 9, 2025](https://twitter.com/testingcatalog/status/1998416816251764754?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=testingcatalog.com)

Devstral 2 achieves a 72.2% score on SWE-bench Verified, establishing itself as a top performer among open-weight code models. It is up to seven times more cost-efficient than some leading proprietary models, such as Claude Sonnet, for real-world coding tasks. The 256K context window allows the model to track large codebases and dependencies, orchestrate multi-file changes, and support advanced features like failure detection and retry mechanisms. Devstral Small 2, despite its compact size, achieves competitive benchmarks and can run on consumer-grade hardware, supporting both image inputs and multimodal agent use cases.

![Mistral](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2a/1b/2a1b1782-8506-4d7d-bf53-ad3fb52e2a0f/content/images/2025/12/Devstral---SWE-Bench-Verified_-OpenWeights-vs-Proprietary-Models--Dark---1-.png)

The models are released under permissive licenses: Devstral 2 under a modified MIT license and Devstral Small 2 under Apache 2.0\. Deployment requirements for Devstral 2 include a minimum of four H100-class GPUs, while Devstral Small 2 supports single-GPU and even CPU-only setups, making it accessible to a wide audience.

Industry experts and early users, including open agent platforms like Cline and Kilo Code, have reported strong adoption and high tool-calling success rates, noting Devstral 2's ability to match or outperform larger proprietary competitors in several benchmarks. These reactions endorse the model's performance and cost advantages for a broad range of coding tasks.

![Mistral](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2a/1b/2a1b1782-8506-4d7d-bf53-ad3fb52e2a0f/content/images/2025/12/Devstral---SWE-Bench-Verified-Regular-Performance-xModelsize--Dark---1-.png)

[Mistral AI](https://www.testingcatalog.com/tag/mistral/), the company behind these releases, focuses on developing open-source AI models that enable distributed intelligence. With this release, the company continues its strategy of providing state-of-the-art tools for code automation while maintaining transparency and accessibility. The introduction of Mistral Vibe CLI further extends these capabilities, offering a native command-line interface for code automation, project-aware context handling, and multi-file orchestration for software engineering workflows.

[Source](https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli?ref=testingcatalog.com)