Model comparison

Mistral Small 3.2 vs phi-3-medium 14B

Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

30.8

Rank #271 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.1

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small 3.2 scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 26.8 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 49.1% for Mistral Small 3.2 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

Mistral Small 3.2 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Mistral Small 3.2phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.829.1
Released2025-06-202024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.0938—
Output $ / M tokens$0.25—
Results tracked613

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2phi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Reasoning Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: 17.5 (#282), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73121.18
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
Chess Puzzles1%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Too close to call

Mistral Small 3.2: 24.9 (#251), phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2phi-3-medium 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202530.3%—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Mistral Small 3.2 leads

Mistral Small 3.2: 26.8 (#249), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond49.1%27.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mistral Small 3.2: 45.1 (#219), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMistral Small 3.2phi-3-medium 14B
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1255—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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