vs
7:0
overall capability wins (1 ties across 8 scored). Devstral 2 leads overall.
- Reasoning4:0
- Coding1:0
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Devstral 2 leads coding (widest gap: +3.6 on SciCode); Devstral 2 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Devstral 2 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K).
- Devstral 2 leads coding (widest gap: +3.6 on SciCode)
- Devstral 2 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Devstral 2 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K)
- Devstral 2 ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
- Devstral 2 is ~3.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large 2
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Devstral 2
- $0.90
- Mistral Large 2
- $3.50
Devstral 2 is about 3.9x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Apache 2.0
Mistral Research / Proprietary API
Open weights
Yes
No
Release
Dec 1, 2025
Jul 24, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
256K
128K
Max output
64K
8K
Parameters
123B
123B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.40
$2
Output $/1M
$2
$6
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.80
$3
Speed
tok/s
85
65
TTFT (s)
0.35
0.45
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
76.2
—
GPQA Diamond
59.4
48.6
Humanity's Last Exam
3.6
3.3
AIME 2025
36.7
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
20.8
19.9
AA-LCR v1.1
32.3
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
38.1
31.2
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
44.8
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
30.3
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
32.8
29.2
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
42.0
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,194
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Devstral 2 | Mistral Large 2 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Mistral Research / Proprietary API | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Jul 24, 2024 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 128K | A +128K |
| Max output | 64K | 8K | A +56K |
| Parameters | 123B | 123B | tie |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.40 | $2 | A +$1.60 |
| Output $/1M | $2 | $6 | A +$4 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.80 | $3 | A +$2.20 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 85 | 65 | A +20 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 0.45 | A +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 76.2 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.4 | 48.6 | A +10.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.6 | 3.3 | A +0.3 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 36.7 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 20.8 | 19.9 | A +0.9 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 32.3 | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 38.1 | 31.2 | A +6.9 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 44.8 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 30.3 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 32.8 | 29.2 | A +3.6 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 42.0 | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,194 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Devstral 2
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- 123B
- Price
- $0.40 / $2
- Speed
- 85 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Open-weight agentic coding model for autonomous software engineering (successor path: Medium 3.5).
Mistral Large 2
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 123B
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 65 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Mistral Research / Proprietary API
123B flagship before Large 3 — EU-hosted frontier option with strong multilingual coding.
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