The best open-weight Mistral model is Devstral 2 2512 (22.0 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. Mistral Small 4 (18.6) and Ministral 3 14B 2512 (16.0) round out the top three.
The best open-weight AI models — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable — ranked by intelligence. Open-source alternatives to proprietary frontier models.
The best open-weight Mistral model is Devstral 2 2512 (22.0 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. Mistral Small 4 (18.6) and Ministral 3 14B 2512 (16.0) round out the top three.
Mistral Small 4 (18.6) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Ministral 3 14B 2512 (16.0). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
modelgrep tracks 19 Mistral models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Mistral Medium 3.5. 11 of them qualify for this ranking.