Model comparison
Mistral Small 3.2 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.2 scores higher in 3 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.1 to 27.7.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 27.4 |
| Released | 2025-06-20 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.0938 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 6 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1093 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1072 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math Too close to call
Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1111 |
Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1045 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1021 |
| LMArena French | — | 1075 |
| LMArena German | — | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1084 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1053 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1044 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1037 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1018 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.