Model comparison
Mixtral 8x22B vs Phi-3.5-mini
Mixtral 8x22B has enough public results to be ranked (#333); 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. Mixtral 8x22B scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.6 to 24.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 50.2% for Mixtral 8x22B and 38.5% for Phi-3.5-mini.
Side by side
| Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 27.1 | 36.9 |
| Released | 2024-04-17 | 2024-08-16 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 64K | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $6 | — |
| Results tracked | 34 | 5 |
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Category by category
Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads
Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 40.6% | 32.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.2% | 38.5% |
| WeirdML | 3.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1166 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 64.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1150 | — |
| DTBench | 55.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.03 | — |
| ForecastBench | 56.3 | — |
| PIQA | — | 81% |
Math Not comparable
Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 16.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1184 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 24.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 46% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 33.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1113 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 78% |
| MMLU | 77.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1116 | — |
| LMArena French | 1166 | — |
| LMArena German | 1141 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1057 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1158 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1151 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 72.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1147 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1144 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262), Phi-3.5-mini: —
| Benchmark | Mixtral 8x22B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1162 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1141 | — |
| WildBench | 71.1% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1130 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mixtral 8x22B better than Phi-3.5-mini?
Mixtral 8x22B has enough public results to be ranked (#333); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Mixtral 8x22B or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?
Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x22B and Phi-3.5-mini share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x22B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.