Model comparison
Mistral vs Phi-4 Mini
Mistral and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi-4 Mini leads 25.3 to 16.6.
- Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral | Phi-4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 30.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.075 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral leads
Mistral: 33.8 (#250), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 10.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Mistral: 22.2 (#200), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral: 22.3 (#278), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1180 | — |
Knowledge Phi-4 Mini leads
Mistral: 16.6 (#288), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 23.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral: 32.8 (#254), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | — |
| LMArena French | 1180 | — |
| LMArena German | 1155 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral: 52.6 (#288), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral: 35.0 (#245), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral: 37.0 (#260), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | — |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral better than Phi-4 Mini?
Mistral and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?
Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral and Phi-4 Mini share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.