Noometry

Model comparison

Ministral 8B vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 8B scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 29.1 to 12.6.

Side by side

Ministral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index28.229.3
Released2024-10-012024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K—
Max output262K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.15—
Results tracked1732

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Category by category

Coding Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Coding12021101
LiveBench Coding—20.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard11.1%—

Reasoning Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11911100
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
DTBench45.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Math11881151
LiveBench Math—17.6%
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert11701067
GPQA Diamond27.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English11651058
LMArena Chinese11931061
LMArena Russian11951111
LMArena French—1135
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11611087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%

Long Context Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12121088

Writing & Preference Ministral 8B leads

Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

BenchmarkMinistral 8BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text11911110
LMArena Creative Writing11751083
LMArena Multi-Turn11661068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Ministral 8B better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Ministral 8B or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Ministral 8B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 8B has 17 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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