Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 7 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small leads 52.6 to 27.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Instruction Following: 63.7% for Mistral Small and 39.1% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 27.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | 15.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | 1093 |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | 26.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1336 | 1072 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | 34.7% |
| LiveBench | 44% | 22.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads
Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | 15.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1341 | 1111 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
Knowledge Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1293 | 1045 |
| MMLU | 68.7% | 68.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1342 | 1021 |
| LMArena French | 1337 | 1075 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | 1260 | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1084 |
Instruction Following Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | 39.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | 1053 |
Long Context Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | 1044 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small leads
Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1304 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | 1018 |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | 9.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
Mistral Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.1 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Mistral Small or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?
Mistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.