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Devstral Small 2

Devstral Small 2 is an open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released on December 9, 2025.

Developer
Mistral AI
Released
December 9, 2025
Total parameters
24B
Architecture
Dense
Context window
256K
Input
Text, image
License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Yes
Official weights, GB
25.8 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
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Devstral Small 2 is a dense model with 24B parameters. Mistral AI lists a context window of 256K tokens. The model accepts text and image input. The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use. The official weights on Hugging Face take about 25.8 GB in FP8. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.

Total parameters, billions
24B
Context window, tokens
256K
License type
Apache 2.0
License conditions
Apache 2.0, with no user or revenue limits.
Weights precision
FP8
License text
apache.org
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/mistralai/Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512/raw/main/README.md
Hugging Face weights indexhttps://huggingface.co/mistralai/Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json
mistral.ai announcementhttps://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli

Questions

What license does Devstral Small 2 use?
The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.
Can I use Devstral Small 2 commercially?
Yes. Apache 2.0 sets no user or revenue limits, unlike the Modified MIT License of the larger Devstral 2.
How much memory does Devstral Small 2 need?
The official Devstral Small 2 weights take about 25.8 GB (FP8). Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less. The memory calculator checks which setups fit.
How many parameters does Devstral Small 2 have?
Devstral Small 2 is a dense model with 24B parameters. Mistral AI lists a context window of 256K tokens.

Sources

Every figure comes from the developer’s model card, license text and official announcements, and from the model’s Hugging Face repository metadata. Each model page lists its sources and the date they were checked; the register is rechecked every week.

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