Model comparison
Codestral vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
Codestral and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 1 category and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 41.8% for Codestral and 29.6% for Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct.
- Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2024-05-29 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads
Codestral: 27.3 (#321), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | 29.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | 40.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1039 |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Codestral: 19.8 (#251), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1028 |
Math Not comparable
Codestral: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1089 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Codestral: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 984 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Codestral: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1000 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1016 |
| LMArena French | — | 1039 |
| LMArena German | — | 1006 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 899 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 856 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1004 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1059 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Codestral: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1023 |
Long Context Not comparable
Codestral: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 996 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Codestral: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)
| Benchmark | Codestral | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1050 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 989 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Codestral better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?
Codestral and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.6 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Codestral or Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct better for coding?
Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.8 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Codestral and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.