Devstral 2 2512 as a coding agent in your terminal

Devstral 2 2512 by Mistral AI, one of 250+ models you can use in Darce, the open source AI coding agent you can undo.

ModelDevstral 2 2512
VendorMistral AI
Model idmistralai/devstral-2512
Context window262k tokens
Price per 1M tokens$0.40 input · $2.00 output (OpenRouter)
Can dotool calling
CategoryCoding-tuned

Strengths

Mistral's Devstral 2, built for software engineering agents.

OpenRouter's description:

Devstral 2 is a state-of-the-art open-source model by Mistral AI specializing in agentic coding. It is a 123B-parameter dense transformer model supporting a 256K context window. Devstral 2 supports exploring...

Use Devstral 2 2512 as a coding agent in your terminal

Start Darce in your project with Devstral 2 2512:

npm install -g darce-cli
darce --model mistralai/devstral-2512

Already in a session? Type /model mistralai/devstral-2512, or open the picker with Ctrl+P. Darce then reads your code, edits files and runs commands with Devstral 2 2512; risky commands ask first, and /undo reverses any change, including what shell commands did. No account yet? npx darce-cli lets you try it free. Which plan includes which models is on the pricing page.

Make it your default or a gear

In ~/.darcerc, set it as the starting model or add it to the gears you move between with Shift+↑ / Shift+↓ (see configuration):

{
  "router": { "default": "mistralai/devstral-2512" },
  "gears": ["qwen/qwen3-coder", "mistralai/devstral-2512"]
}

Compare it on your own code

Benchmarks rarely match your repository. Race Devstral 2 2512 against two other models on a real task and keep the best diff:

/derby --models mistralai/devstral-2512,mistralai/codestral-2508,mistralai/mistral-large-4-0 fix the failing test

Read more about /derby and /swarm.

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