# Mistral Small vs Phi-3.5-MoE

> Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-small-vs-phi-3-5-moe
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | — |
| Rank | 243 | — |
| Context | 262K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 26.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 36.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 46.6% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 497.62 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 44.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1335 | — |
| DTBench | 70.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 53.7% | — |
| LMCA | 20.6% | — |
| LiveBench | 44% | — |
| PIQA | — | 88.6% |

## Math

- Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 5.8% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 39.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1341 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.8% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 88.7% |

## Knowledge

- Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1291 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 84.6% |
| MMLU | 68.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1315 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1340 | — |
| LMArena French | 1337 | — |
| LMArena German | 1340 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1275 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.7% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1310 | — |

## Long Context

- Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1327 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
- Phi-3.5-MoE: —

| Benchmark | Mistral Small | Phi-3.5-MoE |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1338 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1344 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 30.5% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral Small better than Phi-3.5-MoE?

Mistral Small has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral Small and Phi-3.5-MoE share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small has 39 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-MoE has 3.