Model comparison

Ministral 3B vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

28.8

Rank #310 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 28.5 to 10.4.

Side by side

Ministral 3B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
Ministral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index25.628.8
Released2024-10-012024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.04—
Output $ / M tokens$0.04—
Results tracked632

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.4 (#313)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Coding—20.3%
LMArena Coding—1102

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.2 (#319)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1100
DTBench51.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
LMCA5.5%—
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.08—
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Too close to call

Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 25.4 (#247)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Math—17.6%
LMArena Math—1151
MATH Level 514.4%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#237)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
GPQA Diamond25.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.3%—
LMArena Expert—1067
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.6 (#267)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1058
LMArena Chinese—1061
LMArena French—1134
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894
LMArena Russian—1111
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 52.2 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%
LMArena Instruction Following—1087

Long Context Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#262)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1088

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text—1110
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
LMArena Multi-Turn—1068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 3B better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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