# Devstral 2

40 Hacker News commenters recommended Devstral 2 and 26 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a strong open-weight coding model that runs locally on consumer hardware and keeps code off the cloud, though results vary by task.

## Why people recommend it

- Good local coding model (6 comments): "The best you can get today with consumer hardware is something like devstral2-small(24B)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728997)) "right now the perceived best model is Devstral-Small-2-24B-Instruct-2512-4bit for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780829)) "it's nonetheless good enough and doesn't require me to send my data off my laptop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46235887))
- Competitive with larger open models (3 comments): "The current SotA for open models (dsv3, glm, minimax, devstral, etc) are at or above the mini versions of top labs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734923)) "They are in the top of open models, and surpass some closed models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934059)) "The price to performance ratio is practically better in every way." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333371))
- Follows explicit instructions well (2 comments): "it is insane to me that such a small model can follow those explicit directions and consistently perform that workflow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801012)) "it's impressive. It walked through a data analytics and transformation problem" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211116))
- Keeps data on your own machine (2 comments): "it's nonetheless good enough and doesn't require me to send my data off my laptop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46235887)) "all running on my own old PC with everything fitting in a 4 euro USB stick" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236841))

## What people warn about

- Inconsistent on tasks (3 comments): "simple tasks CAN be handled by Devstral 24B or Qwen3 30B A3B, but often they fail at tool use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352939)) "They can all do some tasks reliably, while struggling at other tasks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901530)) "it did ok finding issues but completely failed doing rather basic edits, like it lost closing brackets or used wrong syntax and couldn't recover" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218596))
- Hallucinates or writes bad code (3 comments): "it hallucinated so much that it wasn't super helpful but it still shot out boiler plate code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084526)) "Somehow it writes bad React code and misses to check linting prompts half the time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209794)) "it will cut corners and write incomprehensible code even with a good Opus plan to boot" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811675))
- License is restrictive (3 comments): "Devstral 2 ships under a modified MIT license... doesn't look particularly permissively licensed (or open-source)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206850)) "which is not really open source but more of a "MIT unless you have lot of money"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125330)) "only restrict companies with massive revenues from using them for free" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206916))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Cursor Composer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/composer-2-5.md): 214 recommend
- [Qwen3-Coder](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen3-coder-next.md): 165 recommend
- [GPT-5.3-Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-3-codex.md): 135 recommend
- [Meta Muse Glimmer 30B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/meta-muse-glimmer.md): 70 recommend
- [GPT-5.2-Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-2-codex.md): 54 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Devstral 2", https://hackerapproved.com/p/devstral-2/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).