Devstral
the small one is apache 2.0 and the big one stops working for you the month you pass $20m in revenue.
two models, two licences, and mistral says so plainly — which after codestral from the same company is a meaningful improvement in candour.
devstral 2's 123b model carries a modified mit licence that revokes all rights if your company's global consolidated monthly revenue exceeded $20 million in the preceding month. that is a hard cutoff rather than a graduated fee, pushing larger firms onto mistral's paid api or a negotiated deal. devstral small at 24b is plain apache 2.0 with nothing attached.
credit where it's due: mistral's own launch material states the split explicitly rather than letting people discover it in the licence file, which is the failure mode we found at fish speech and marker. same company shipped codestral under a flat non-commercial bar while framing it as a download, so the contrast within one vendor is instructive.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- coding llms
- pricing
- free below the threshold
- website
- huggingface.co
two models, two licences, and mistral says so plainly — which after codestral from the same company is a meaningful improvement in candour.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.