Model comparison
Mistral Large vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Mistral Large and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Large scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 30.9 to 17.1.
Side by side
| Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 32.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $6 | — |
| Results tracked | 51 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.3 (#263)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1277 | 1130 |
| SciCode | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 38.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 264.7 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 62.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 59.5% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 38.4% | — |
Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 20.8 (#214)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1127 |
| SimpleBench | 22.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.5% | — |
| DTBench | 65.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 16.7% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.52 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| LiveBench | 48.4% | — |
Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.9 (#202)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1262 | 1173 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 50.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 29.6 (#226)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1232 | 1108 |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 59.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 21.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.5% | — |
| MMLU | 80% | — |
Multilingual Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.8 (#258)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1237 | 1094 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | 1108 |
| LMArena French | 1324 | 1109 |
| LMArena German | 1254 | 1101 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1187 | 1042 |
| LMArena Korean | 1202 | 954 |
| LMArena Russian | 1257 | 1145 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1268 | 1095 |
Instruction Following Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.8 (#263)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1114 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.9% | — |
| IFEval | 87.7% | — |
Long Context Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.9 (#250)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1262 | 1120 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Large leads
Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.3 (#267)
| Benchmark | Mistral Large | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1266 | 1138 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1243 | 1106 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1260 | 1088 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 69% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 985 | — |
| WildBench | 80.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 39.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Large better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?
Mistral Large and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 32.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral Large or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?
Mistral Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 32.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Large and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large has 51 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.