alt Hacker NewsI like Mistral, it hits the exact sweet spot between cost and my data staying in the EU, withouth a significant drop in quality, but man are their model naming conventions confusing af. They mention they have a model called Devstral 2, which is neither Codestral nor Devestral. I want to use it, but the api only lists devstral-2512, devstral-latest, devstral-medium-latest, devstral-medium-2507, devstral-small, devstral-small-2507.
I think, devstral-latest should be it, no? So I write to support and get an answer 12 hours later that says oh, no, devstral 2 is definetely called devstral 2 and then a page of instructions on how to set it up in Intellij... generated with AI. The screens it is refering to don't exist and never did.
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I had the same experience. It's even more confusing when you want to create an API key because they are separated by product, maybe?
I have a general impression they are not interested too much in individual devs and making it suite their workflow. They want to be a B2B company and deliver a custom workflow per company.
Or it can just be a Google like problem where a big company one part doesn't talk to the other.
>data staying in the EU
This is really why Mistral has any support.
The models are bottom barrel, but its the best Europe has...
Although you could use Chinese models on European servers.
I got really lost on their site, but to help a bit according to their model page
devstral-2512 devstral-latest and devstral-medium-latest are all devstral 2 https://docs.mistral.ai/models/devstral-2-25-12
labs-devstral-small-2512 and devstral-small-latest are devstral small 2
devstral-medium-2507 is devstral 1.0
and devstral-small-2507 is devstral small 1.1