Model comparison
Ministral 8B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Ministral 8B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.2 vs 27.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads 28.5 to 12.6.
Side by side
| Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 28.2 | 27.9 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 17 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1202 | 1093 |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 11.1% | — |
Reasoning Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1072 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| DTBench | 45.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math Too close to call
Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1111 |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads
Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1170 | 1045 |
| GPQA Diamond | 27.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multilingual Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1165 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1193 | 1021 |
| LMArena Russian | 1195 | 1022 |
| LMArena French | — | 1076 |
| LMArena German | — | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 905 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1085 |
Instruction Following Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1161 | 1053 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
Long Context Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1212 | 1044 |
Writing & Preference Ministral 8B leads
Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)
| Benchmark | Ministral 8B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1175 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1166 | 1018 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 8B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
Ministral 8B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.2 vs 27.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Ministral 8B or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?
Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.