Model comparison
Mistral Large 3 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large 3 scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.2 to 27.7.
Side by side
| Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 38.6 | 27.4 |
| Released | 2025-12-02 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.75 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large 3 leads
Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1447 | 1093 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1230 | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Reasoning Mistral Large 3 leads
Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | 1072 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 7.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| Thematic Generalization | 23% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math Mistral Large 3 leads
Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1415 | 1111 |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
Knowledge Mistral Large 3 leads
Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1045 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.5% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1222 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads
Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1412 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1021 |
| LMArena French | 1456 | 1075 |
| LMArena German | 1438 | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1399 | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | 1384 | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | 1412 | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1437 | 1084 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads
Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1402 | 1053 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads
Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1413 | 1044 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads
Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1385 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1429 | 1018 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Large 3 better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral Large 3 or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?
Mistral Large 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.1 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.