Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Phi-4
Magistral Small and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Phi-4 leads 17.7 to 6.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 30% for Magistral Small and 13.8% for Phi-4.
- Phi-4 is cheaper at $0.07 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $1.50 for Magistral Small.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Phi-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 31.2 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 40K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $0.07 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $0.14 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1231 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.8% |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |
Reasoning Phi-4 leads
Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | 1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 130.42 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 47.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1220 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 45.2% |
| LiveBench | — | 41.6% |
Math Magistral Small leads
Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | 13.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1246 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 64.9% |
Knowledge Phi-4 leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | 56.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 29.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1203 |
| MMLU | — | 84.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1197 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1212 |
| LMArena French | — | 1224 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1151 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1234 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1201 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1217 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1217 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1182 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62.6% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1206 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Phi-4?
Magistral Small and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.2 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Magistral Small or Phi-4?
Phi-4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Magistral Small lists at $0.50 and $1.50.
Is Magistral Small or Phi-4 better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Phi-4 share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.