Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 Vision was developed as a multimodal variant of Phi-3.5, designed to understand and reason about both images and text. Built to extend the Phi family's efficiency into vision-language tasks, it enables compact multimodal AI for practical applications.
9 months newer

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Microsoft
2024-08-23

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Magistral Small 2506

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct