Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 16.2% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Magistral Small 2506 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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-4 Mini Reasoning was developed to incorporate extended thinking capabilities into the ultra-compact Phi-4 Mini architecture. Built to demonstrate that reasoning enhancements can be applied even to very small models, it brings analytical depth to resource-constrained environments.
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Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
Microsoft
2025-04-30

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Magistral Small 2506

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
Phi 4 Mini Reasoning
2025-02-01
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning

Magistral Small 2506

Phi 4 Mini Reasoning