Model comparison
Mistral Small vs Phi-3.5-mini
Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral Small scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 46.6% for Mistral Small and 38.5% for Phi-3.5-mini.
Side by side
| Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 33.1 | 36.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-26 | 2024-08-16 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 256K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 39 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Mistral Small: 33.5 (#242), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | 32.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | 38.5% |
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small: 27.9 (#87), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mistral Small: 19.3 (#238), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1336 | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
| PIQA | — | 81% |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Small: 15.4 (#287), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1341 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small: 30.9 (#214), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1293 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 78% |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Mistral Small: 32.9 (#91), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small: 45.7 (#164), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1342 | — |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1260 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small: 66.6 (#204), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small: 40.4 (#151), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Small: 52.6 (#165), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1304 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small better than Phi-3.5-mini?
Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#238); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Mistral Small or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.5 vs 34.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Phi-3.5-mini share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.