Open-weight local LLM

Devstral (24B)

Best open model for coding agents. Designed for agentic coding workflows. 391K downloads.

32 GB power user 20 GB RAM Q4_K_M Agentic coding
Parameters
24B
Minimum RAM
20 GB
Model size
14 GB
Quantization
Q4_K_M

Can Devstral (24B) run locally?

Devstral (24B) belongs on 32 GB machines when you want stronger quality without jumping to server hardware.

Search for devstral-24b in LM Studio or another GGUF-compatible runtime.

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Install path

01
Check RAM fitMinimum 20 GB RAM. Start with the Q4_K_M quant.
02
Load the modelSearch devstral-24b in LM Studio.
03
Control locallyUse LocalClaw to manage models, agents, chat, channels and scheduled OpenClaw work.

Strengths

  • Best open model for coding agents
  • Apache 2.0
  • 128K context
  • Designed for agentic workflows

Limitations

  • Needs 20GB+ RAM
  • Coding specialist — limited general chat

Best use cases

  • Agentic coding
  • Automated software development
  • Code review
  • Complex refactoring

Capability profile

speed
5
quality
8
coding
10
reasoning
8

Technical notes

Developer
Mistral AI
License
Apache 2.0
Context window
131,072 tokens
Architecture
Transformer optimized for agentic coding

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