Model comparison

Ministral 3B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

26.2

Rank #338 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads 28.5 to 10.4.

Side by side

Ministral 3B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Ministral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index26.227.9
Released2024-10-012024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.10—
Results tracked635

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
LMArena Coding—1093
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Ministral 3B leads

Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1072
DTBench51.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
LMCA5.5%—
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.1—
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Too close to call

Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Math—15.7%
LMArena Math—1111
MATH Level 514.4%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
GPQA Diamond25.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.3%—
LMArena Expert—1045
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multilingual Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1021
LMArena Chinese—1021
LMArena French—1076
LMArena German—1044
LMArena Japanese—935
LMArena Korean—905
LMArena Russian—1022
LMArena Spanish—1085

Instruction Following Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%
LMArena Instruction Following—1053

Long Context Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1044

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Ministral 3B: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMinistral 3BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text—1073
LMArena Creative Writing—1037
LMArena Multi-Turn—1018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 3B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.9 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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