Model comparison
Mistral vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Mistral and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 29.1 to 16.6.
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 29.3 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 22 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral leads
Mistral: 33.8 (#250), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1162 | 1101 |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 20.3% |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Mistral: 22.2 (#200), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1149 | 1100 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 30.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
| LiveBench | — | 24% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Mistral: 22.3 (#278), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1180 | 1151 |
| Omni-MATH | 7.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Mistral: 16.6 (#288), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1125 | 1067 |
| MMLU-Pro | 27.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.3% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| MMLU | — | 75.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |
Multilingual Mistral leads
Mistral: 32.8 (#254), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1129 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1109 | 1061 |
| LMArena French | 1180 | 1135 |
| LMArena German | 1155 | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1013 | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | 1032 | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | 1168 | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1143 | 1111 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Mistral: 52.6 (#288), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1152 | 1087 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 47.2% |
| IFEval | 56.8% | — |
Long Context Mistral leads
Mistral: 35.0 (#245), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1153 | 1088 |
Writing & Preference Mistral leads
Mistral: 37.0 (#260), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)
| Benchmark | Mistral | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1165 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1158 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1147 | 1068 |
| WildBench | 66% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 12.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?
Mistral and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Mistral or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?
Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mistral and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral has 22 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.