Model comparison

Codestral vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

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Codestral Mistral AI

30.6

Rank #290 Reported

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 32.9 to 27.3.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codestral and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
CodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.633.0
Released2024-05-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked717

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Category by category

Coding Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Aider Polyglot11.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct41.8%—
LMArena Coding—1130
BigCodeBench Complete52.5%—
ALE-Bench137.78—
HumanEval+73.8%—
MBPP+61.9%—

Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark32.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1127

Math Not comparable

Codestral: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math—1173

Knowledge Not comparable

Codestral: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert—1108

Multilingual Not comparable

Codestral: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1094
LMArena Chinese—1108
LMArena French—1110
LMArena German—1101
LMArena Japanese—1042
LMArena Korean—954
LMArena Russian—1145
LMArena Spanish—1095

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codestral: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following—1113

Long Context Not comparable

Codestral: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1120

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codestral: —, Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text—1138
LMArena Creative Writing—1107
LMArena Multi-Turn—1088

Frequently asked questions

Is Codestral better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codestral or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codestral and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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