Model comparison
Mistral Medium 3.1 vs Phi-4
Mistral Medium 3.1 and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.1 leads 55.5 to 40.5.
- Phi-4 is cheaper at $0.07 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $2 for Mistral Medium 3.1.
- Mistral Medium 3.1 accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.2 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 128K |
| Max output | 105K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | $0.07 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2 | $0.14 |
| Results tracked | 3 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1231 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.8% |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |
Reasoning Phi-4 leads
Mistral Medium 3.1: 10.6 (#341), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 6.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| Thematic Generalization | 20.3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 47.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1220 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 45.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 130.42 |
| LiveBench | — | 41.6% |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 13.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1246 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 64.9% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 29.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1203 |
| MMLU | — | 84.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | 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
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1201 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Medium 3.1: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1217 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.1 leads
Mistral Medium 3.1: 55.5 (#145), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium 3.1 | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1217 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1182 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1476 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1206 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium 3.1 better than Phi-4?
Mistral Medium 3.1 and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium 3.1 or Phi-4?
Phi-4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.1 lists at $0.40 and $2.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium 3.1 does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium 3.1 and Phi-4 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium 3.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.