Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
Magistral Small and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 29.7), 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 reasoning, where Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads 19.6 to 6.8.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1039 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |
Reasoning Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1028 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | — |
Math Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1089 |
Knowledge Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 984 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | 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
Magistral Small: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1023 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 996 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1050 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 989 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?
Magistral Small and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Magistral Small or Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.