Model comparison

Mixtral 8x7B vs Phi-3.5-mini

Mixtral 8x7B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Mixtral 8x7B Mistral AI

27.1

Rank #334 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Mixtral 8x7B scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

Mixtral 8x7B and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
Mixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderMistral AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index27.136.9
Released2023-12-112024-08-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window32K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.70—
Output $ / M tokens$0.70—
Results tracked385

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LMArena Coding1126—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%
HumanEval+39.6%—
MBPP+49.7%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
PIQA83.6%81%
LMArena Hard Prompts1115—
DTBench49.6%—
Adversarial NLI55.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index118.47—
ForecastBench56.3—
HellaSwag86.7%—
WinoGrande77.2%—

Math Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
GSM8K74.4%86.2%
Omni-MATH10.5%—
LMArena Math1147—
MATH Level 510%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond30.6%—
MMLU-Pro33.5%—
GPQA (HELM)29.6%—
LMArena Expert1088—
ARC (AI2) Challenge87.3%—
BoolQ—78%
MMLU70.6%—
OpenBookQA85.8%—
TriviaQA82.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1077—
LMArena Chinese1055—
LMArena French1166—
LMArena German1114—
LMArena Japanese931—
LMArena Korean968—
LMArena Russian1090—
LMArena Spanish1111—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
IFEval57.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1109—

Long Context Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1103—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMixtral 8x7BPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1132—
LMArena Creative Writing1109—
WildBench67.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1115—

Frequently asked questions

Is Mixtral 8x7B better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Mixtral 8x7B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Mixtral 8x7B or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mixtral 8x7B and Phi-3.5-mini share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mixtral 8x7B has 38 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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