Side-by-side comparison of Laguna XS.2 (Poolside · USA) and Mistral Small (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Laguna XS.2 is rated conditional; Mistral Small is EU-ready. They part ways on commercial use: Laguna XS.2 is "Unrestricted", Mistral Small is "Yes".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | 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. | EU-ready Best-in-class permissive licence from an EU vendor. Apache 2.0 means no usage caps, no royalty, no revocation risk. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Partial |
| Origin | USA | EU |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 13/100 |
| Speed | — | 152 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.15/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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