Model comparison

Mixtral 8x22B vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Mixtral 8x22B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #333 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x22B scores higher in 5 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 29.1 to 15.1.

Side by side

Mixtral 8x22B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
Mixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index27.129.3
Released2024-04-172024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window64K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked3432

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Category by category

Coding Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Coding11661101
WeirdML3.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct40.6%—
LiveBench Coding—20.3%
BigCodeBench Complete50.2%—
HumanEval+72%—
MBPP+64.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Cybench7.5%—

Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11501100
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
DTBench55.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index122.03—
ForecastBench56.3—
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Math11841151
Omni-MATH16.3%—
LiveBench Math—17.6%
MATH Level 524.2%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert11131067
MMLU77.8%75.7%
GPQA Diamond34.1%—
MMLU-Pro46%—
GPQA (HELM)33.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Mixtral 8x22B leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English11281058
LMArena Chinese11161061
LMArena French11661135
LMArena German11411080
LMArena Japanese1037966
LMArena Korean1057894
LMArena Russian11581111
LMArena Spanish11511111

Instruction Following Mixtral 8x22B leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11471087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%
IFEval72.4%—

Long Context Mixtral 8x22B leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11441088

Writing & Preference Mixtral 8x22B leads

Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x22BPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text11621110
LMArena Creative Writing11411083
LMArena Multi-Turn11301068
WildBench71.1%—
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Mixtral 8x22B better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.3 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mixtral 8x22B or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 27.9 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x22B and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x22B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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