Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct leads with 9.0% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of the 3.1 base model, designed to deliver improved instruction-following with refinements from the updated architecture. Built to serve diverse applications with enhanced reliability, it advances the Small model line's capabilities.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 MoE was created using a mixture-of-experts architecture, designed to provide enhanced capabilities while maintaining efficiency through sparse activation. Built to combine the benefits of larger models with practical computational requirements, it represents Microsoft's exploration of efficient scaling techniques.
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Microsoft
2024-08-23

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Mistral AI
2025-03-17
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

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Available providers and their performance metrics

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