Side-by-side comparison of DBRX Instruct (Databricks · USA) and Laguna XS.2 (Poolside · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DBRX Instruct is rated conditional; Laguna XS.2 is conditional. They part ways on licence: DBRX Instruct is "Databricks Open", Laguna XS.2 is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional 132B MoE (36B active). Databricks Open Model License is bespoke — allows commercial use with acceptable-use policy and a 700M-MAU-style cap. Read the licence carefully; not Apache 2.0. | Conditional Per the published model card, Laguna XS.2 is an Apache 2.0 33B / 3B-active MoE positioned for local agentic coding, with a 131k-token context and FP8 KV cache aimed at single-machine inference. Permissive license and self-hostable weights make EU-side deployment straightforward; the limits are vendor jurisdiction (San Francisco–headquartered, no published EU DPA for hosted endpoints) and a model card that does not describe the training corpus. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-03 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Databricks Open | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | With caps | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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