Model comparison

Mistral 7B vs Phi-3.5-mini

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.6 to 26.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 19.5% for Mistral 7B and 32.8% for Phi-3.5-mini.

Side by side

Mistral 7B and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
Mistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index23.036.9
Released2023-09-272024-08-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.25—
Output $ / M tokens$0.25—
Results tracked375

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
BigCodeBench Instruct19.5%32.8%
BigCodeBench Complete27.3%38.5%
LMArena Coding1082—
HumanEval+36%—
MBPP+42.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
PIQA83%81%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1067—
DTBench42.5%—
Adversarial NLI47.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard56.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index112.21—
HellaSwag81%—
WinoGrande75.3%—

Math Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
GSM8K54.4%86.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20250.3%—
LMArena Math1085—
MATH Level 53.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
BoolQ87.4%78%
GPQA Diamond15.2%—
LMArena Expert1036—
ARC (AI2) Challenge78.6%—
MMLU62.5%—
OpenBookQA79.8%—
TriviaQA75.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1012—
LMArena Chinese1009—
LMArena French1037—
LMArena German987—
LMArena Japanese878—
LMArena Russian1018—
LMArena Spanish1026—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Instruction Following1060—

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1060—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral 7BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1090—
LMArena Creative Writing1068—
LMArena Multi-Turn1062—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral 7B better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Mistral 7B or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Phi-3.5-mini share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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