Model comparison
Mistral Medium vs Phi-4 Mini
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Phi-4 Mini costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Medium scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 Mini in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mistral Medium leads 34.2 to 28.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 40.2% for Mistral Medium and 10.8% for Phi-4 Mini.
- Phi-4 Mini is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
- Mistral Medium accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2023-12-11 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Max output | 262K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $0.075 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 36 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 40.2% | 10.8% |
| FrontierCode | 8% | — |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1434 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 763.98 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.7% | — |
Reasoning Mistral Medium leads
Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1426 | — |
| DTBench | 75.5% | — |
| LMCA | 26.1% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 26.9% | — |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 32.2% | — |
| ProofBench | 9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1408 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 81.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 22.7% | 23.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | 59.5% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1408 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1172 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1408 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1447 | — |
| LMArena French | 1459 | — |
| LMArena German | 1432 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1433 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1398 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1406 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Medium | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1424 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1391 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.3% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Medium better than Phi-4 Mini?
Mistral Medium is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Phi-4 Mini costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Mistral Medium's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Medium or Phi-4 Mini?
Phi-4 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Is Mistral Medium or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?
Mistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Mistral Medium does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Medium and Phi-4 Mini share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Medium has 36 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.