Model comparison

Mixtral 8x22B vs phi-3-medium 14B

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x22B scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where phi-3-medium 14B leads 36.8 to 24.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 24.2% for Mixtral 8x22B and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

Mixtral 8x22B and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Mixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index27.129.7
Released2024-04-172024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window64K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked3413

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct40.6%37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete50.2%48.7%
WeirdML3.2%—
LMArena Coding1166—
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+64.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
Cybench7.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index122.03121.23
LMArena Hard Prompts1150—
DTBench55.1%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench56.3—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math phi-3-medium 14B leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 524.2%17.6%
Omni-MATH16.3%—
LMArena Math1184—

Knowledge Mixtral 8x22B leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond34.1%27.6%
MMLU77.8%78%
MMLU-Pro46%—
GPQA (HELM)33.4%—
LMArena Expert1113—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1128—
LMArena Chinese1116—
LMArena French1166—
LMArena German1141—
LMArena Japanese1037—
LMArena Korean1057—
LMArena Russian1158—
LMArena Spanish1151—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
IFEval72.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1147—

Long Context Not comparable

Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1144—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22Bphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1162—
LMArena Creative Writing1141—
WildBench71.1%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1130—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mixtral 8x22B better than phi-3-medium 14B?

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mixtral 8x22B or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x22B and phi-3-medium 14B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x22B has 34 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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