Model comparison
Phi-4 vs Pixtral Large
Phi-4 and Pixtral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.9 vs 31.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Phi-4 leads 40.7 to 32.9.
- Phi-4 is cheaper at $0.07 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
Side by side
| Phi-4 | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.9 | 31.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-11 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 4K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.07 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Phi-4: 33.8 (#237), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1231 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.4% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Phi-4: 22.6 (#120), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 28.8% | — |
| BALROG | 11.6% | — |
Reasoning Pixtral Large leads
Phi-4: 17.0 (#287), Pixtral Large: 20.9 (#208)
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 1% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 47.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1220 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 45.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.43 | — |
| LiveBench | 41.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
Phi-4: 19.6 (#279), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 13.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 42% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1246 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 64.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Phi-4: 32.5 (#204), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 29.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 3.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1203 | — |
| MMLU | 84.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Phi-4: —, Pixtral Large: 30.0 (#105)
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Phi-4: 37.4 (#232), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1197 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1211 | — |
| LMArena French | 1223 | — |
| LMArena German | 1222 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1158 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1151 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1209 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1234 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Phi-4: 60.6 (#246), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 58.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1201 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Phi-4: 36.9 (#221), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1217 | — |
Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads
Phi-4: 40.7 (#239), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#273)
| Benchmark | Phi-4 | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1217 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1182 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1206 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 25.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Phi-4 better than Pixtral Large?
Phi-4 and Pixtral Large score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.9 vs 31.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Phi-4 or Pixtral Large?
Phi-4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Phi-4 and Pixtral Large share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-4 has 37 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.