# Mistral 7B vs Phi-3.5-mini

> Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#346); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-phi-3-5-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B 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 34.0 to 25.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 19.5% for Mistral 7B and 32.8% for Phi-3.5-mini.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 22.9 | 36.4 |
| Rank | 346 | — |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)
- Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | 32.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | 38.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| PIQA | 83% | 81% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.97 | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 54.4% | 86.2% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1085 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| BoolQ | 87.4% | 78% |
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | — |
| LMArena French | 1036 | — |
| LMArena German | 987 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#346); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Mistral 7B or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Phi-3.5-mini share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.