Model comparison
Mistral Small 3.2 vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Small 3.2 leads 45.0 to 31.1.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.2 | 29.3 |
| Released | 2025-06-20 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.0938 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 6 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1101 |
Reasoning Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1100 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 30.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.74 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
| LiveBench | — | 24% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 17.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1151 |
Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1067 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| MMLU | — | 75.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena French | — | 1135 |
| LMArena German | — | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 47.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1087 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 3.2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1088 |
Writing & Preference Mistral Small 3.2 leads
Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 3.2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1083 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1255 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1068 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 12.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 3.2 better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?
Mistral Small 3.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 3.2 and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 3.2 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.