Mistral Large 2 vs Phi-4

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

Mistral Large 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Mistral Large 2's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 81 against 80.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 60 to 82.6. Phi-4 does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Mistral Large 2 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral Large 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Knowledge

Phi-4

Mistral Large 2

58.7

Phi-4

70.5

68
MMLU
84.8
68
GPQA
56.1
66
SuperGPQA
-
64
OpenBookQA
-
74
MMLU-Pro
-
12
HLE
-

Coding

Phi-4

Mistral Large 2

49

Phi-4

82.6

60
HumanEval
82.6
49
SWE-bench Verified
-
38
LiveCodeBench
-

Mathematics

Mistral Large 2
68
AIME 2023
-
70
AIME 2024
-
69
AIME 2025
-
64
HMMT Feb 2023
-
66
HMMT Feb 2024
-
65
HMMT Feb 2025
-
67
BRUMO 2025
-
82
MATH-500
-

Reasoning

Mistral Large 2
66
SimpleQA
-
64
MuSR
-
82
BBH
-

Instruction Following

Mistral Large 2
83
IFEval
-

Multilingual

Mistral Large 2

Mistral Large 2

81

Phi-4

80.6

81
MGSM
80.6

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Mistral Large 2 or Phi-4?

Mistral Large 2 is ahead overall, 64 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 60 and 82.6.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Phi-4?

Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 58.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Large 2 or Phi-4?

Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 82.6 versus 49. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Mistral Large 2 or Phi-4?

Mistral Large 2 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 80.6. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 9, 2026

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