Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Mistral Small and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.4 vs 33.0), 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 Small 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 writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.5 to 34.1.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 33.0 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1130 |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | 1127 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads
Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1173 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | 1108 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1094 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | 1108 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | 1110 |
| LMArena German | 1340 | 1101 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | 1042 |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | 954 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1145 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1095 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1113 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1120 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1138 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | 1107 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1088 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?
Mistral Small and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.4 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral Small or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.