# Mistral Large 3 vs phi-3-medium 14B

> Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-large-3-vs-phi-3-medium-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Mistral Large 3 leads 35.5 to 9.1.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 38.6 | 29.1 |
| Rank | 172 | 306 |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.75 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1230 | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1447 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 50.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 7.5% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 23% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1429 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 121.18 |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1415 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1222 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | — |
| LMArena French | 1456 | — |
| LMArena German | 1438 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1399 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1437 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1402 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1413 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Large 3 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1427 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1385 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1429 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Large 3 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral Large 3 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Large 3 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Large 3 has 24 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.
