Model comparison

Mistral Nemo vs Phi-4

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

25.9

Rank #332 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

30.9

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Nemo scores higher in 3 categories and Phi-4 in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi-4 leads 32.5 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 10.8% for Mistral Nemo and 64.9% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 is cheaper at $0.07 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.15 for Mistral Nemo.

Side by side

Mistral Nemo and Phi-4 specifications
Mistral NemoPhi-4
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index25.930.9
Released2024-07-012024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.07
Output $ / M tokens$0.15$0.14
Results tracked1037

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, Phi-4: 33.8 (#237)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
LMArena Coding—1231
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Mistral Nemo: 23.3 (#118), Phi-4: 22.6 (#120)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.6%28.8%
BALROG17.6%11.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Mistral Nemo: 19.9 (#230), Phi-4: 17.0 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
Epoch Capabilities Index118.63130.43
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1220
DTBench48.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
LiveBench—41.6%
PIQA83.5%—

Math Mistral Nemo leads

Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#263), Phi-4: 19.6 (#279)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
MATH Level 510.8%64.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%
LMArena Math—1246
GSM8K84.2%—

Knowledge Phi-4 leads

Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#293), Phi-4: 32.5 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
GPQA Diamond29.9%56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
LMArena Expert—1203
BoolQ82.5%—
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, Phi-4: 37.4 (#232)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
LMArena Non-English—1197
LMArena Chinese—1211
LMArena French—1223
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Russian—1209
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, Phi-4: 60.6 (#246)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1201

Long Context Not comparable

Mistral Nemo: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#221)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query—1217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

Mistral Nemo: 28.6 (#291), Phi-4: 40.7 (#239)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral NemoPhi-4
LMArena Text—1217
LMArena Creative Writing—1182
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing881—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1206
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Nemo better than Phi-4?

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Mistral Nemo or Phi-4?

Phi-4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Mistral Nemo lists at $0.15 and $0.15.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Nemo and Phi-4 share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Nemo has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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