Phi-4 vs Mistral 7B v0.3

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.

Phi-4 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 39 to 34. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Phi-4's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 82.6 against 17. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 82.6 to 22.

Mistral 7B v0.3 gives you the larger context window at 32K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.

Quick Verdict

Pick Phi-4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 7B v0.3 only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 32K context window.

Knowledge

Phi-4

Phi-4

70.5

Mistral 7B v0.3

28.3

84.8
MMLU
30
56.1
GPQA
29
-
SuperGPQA
27
-
OpenBookQA
25
-
MMLU-Pro
54
-
HLE
5

Coding

Phi-4

Phi-4

82.6

Mistral 7B v0.3

17

82.6
HumanEval
22
-
SWE-bench Verified
15
-
LiveCodeBench
14

Mathematics

Mistral 7B v0.3
-
AIME 2023
30
-
AIME 2024
32
-
AIME 2025
31
-
HMMT Feb 2023
26
-
HMMT Feb 2024
28
-
HMMT Feb 2025
27
-
BRUMO 2025
29
-
MATH-500
60

Reasoning

Mistral 7B v0.3
-
SimpleQA
28
-
MuSR
26
-
BBH
63

Instruction Following

Mistral 7B v0.3
-
IFEval
68

Multilingual

Phi-4

Phi-4

80.6

Mistral 7B v0.3

62

80.6
MGSM
62

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Phi-4 or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Phi-4 is ahead overall, 39 to 34. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 82.6 and 22.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Phi-4 or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 28.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Phi-4 or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 82.6 versus 17. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Phi-4 or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Phi-4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 62. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.