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Start with Phi 3.5 mini instruct and Mixtral 8x22B Instruct, or choose any two current ranked language models. Compare capability evidence, price, context, provider availability, and weight access without pretending one field decides every use case.
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Phi 3.5 mini instruct vs Mixtral 8x22B Instruct
Live dataset updated 9/23/2026, 4:02:17 AM UTC
Open 1200×630 evidence receipt| Field | Phi 3.5 mini instruct Microsoft | Mixtral 8x22B Instruct Mistral AI |
|---|---|---|
| ModelCap position | #221 | #219 |
| Index score | 11.5 | 12.5 |
| Evidence | Estimatedpublisher-corpus-prior over 215 held-out anchors (26%); launch card against 4 resolved peers on 6 rows (74%); exceeds every named peer on 1 of 6 rows; optimism haircut 0.67 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 1.6 toward the measured corpus | Measured2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards |
| Input / 1M | Unavailable | $2.00 |
| Output / 1M | Unavailable | $6.00 |
| Pricing status | unavailable | fresh |
| Context | — | 66K |
| Providers | 0 | 1 |
| Weight access | Open weights | Open weights |
Decision facts
- Phi 3.5 mini instruct is #221; Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is #219 on the same current language board.
- Index scores are 11.5 for Phi 3.5 mini instruct and 12.5 for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
- Evidence differs: Phi 3.5 mini instruct is Estimated; Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is Measured.
- ModelCap currently lists 0 providers for Phi 3.5 mini instruct and 1 for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct.
These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.
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