Title: Magistral Small 1.2 vs Devstral Small 2 | LLM EU
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# Magistral Small 1.2 vs Devstral Small 2 (24B)

Magistral Small 1.2 and Devstral Small 2 (24B) are compared here on the fields this catalogue records rather than on a benchmark score. Context window: 131,072 for Magistral Small 1.2, 262,144 for Devstral Small 2 (24B). Parameters: 24.01B on both cards. License: apache-2.0 on both cards. Languages: en on both cards.

**Pick Magistral Small 1.2 if** it is the model you already intended to deploy, and nothing recorded above rules it out.

**Pick Devstral Small 2 (24B) if** you need the larger recorded context window (262,144 against 131,072).

**Pick neither if** you need an endpoint at all: neither model has one in this catalogue.

## Where the records differ

- Context window
  Magistral Small 1.2: 131,072 %C2%B7 Devstral Small 2 (24B): 262,144
- Modalities
  Magistral Small 1.2: text, vision %C2%B7 Devstral Small 2 (24B): text, code

Where two models differ, this table shows the difference and stops. LLM EU publishes no winner badge without a documented score for that task, and a missing figure stays missing instead of becoming a zero.