Model comparison

Ministral 3B vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 30.2 to 10.4.

Side by side

Ministral 3B and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
Ministral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index26.233.0
Released2024-10-01—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.10—
Results tracked617

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding—1130

Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts—1127
DTBench51.7%—
LMCA5.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index118.1—

Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math—1173
MATH Level 514.4%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
GPQA Diamond25.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.3%—
LMArena Expert—1108

Multilingual Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1094
LMArena Chinese—1108
LMArena French—1110
LMArena German—1101
LMArena Japanese—1042
LMArena Korean—954
LMArena Russian—1145
LMArena Spanish—1095

Instruction Following Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following—1113

Long Context Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1120

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text—1138
LMArena Creative Writing—1107
LMArena Multi-Turn—1088

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 3B better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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