Model comparison
Magistral Medium vs Phi-4 Mini
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Phi-4 Mini costs 21× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Medium scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 Mini in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Phi-4 Mini leads 22.4 to 8.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 39.2% for Magistral Medium and 10.8% for Phi-4 Mini.
- Phi-4 Mini is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $5 for Magistral Medium.
- Magistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 35.2 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Max output | 16K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.075 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 22 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 39.2% | 10.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1319 | — |
Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads
Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.3% | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 16.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 6.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | — |
Math Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1250 | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 23.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1232 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1227 | — |
| LMArena French | 1267 | — |
| LMArena German | 1248 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1125 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1224 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1271 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1295 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Magistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Medium better than Phi-4 Mini?
Magistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.2 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Phi-4 Mini costs 21× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Magistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Medium or Phi-4 Mini?
Phi-4 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Magistral Medium lists at $2 and $5.
Is Magistral Medium or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Magistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Medium and Phi-4 Mini share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Medium has 22 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.