Microsoft Phi-4 vs Mistral Mistral 8x22B

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On Guardion's LLM vulnerability Benchmark, Microsoft Phi-4 is the more secure of the two: Phi-4 scores 30.0% and Mistral 8x22B scores 31.5% on attack success rate (ASR) (lower is better). One or both scores are estimated from public safety evaluations pending a Guardion benchmark run.

Head-to-Head Overview

Phi-4 is the overall winner in this comparison!

Attack Success Rate (lower is safer)

ASR for Microsoft Phi-4 vs Mistral Mistral 8x22B. Green marks the safer model on each metric. Only the overall score is available for estimated models.

Overall (ASR)

Phi-4
30.0%
Mistral 8x22B
31.5%

Zero-Shot (ASR)

Phi-4
Mistral 8x22B
12.2%

Key Highlights

  • Microsoft Phi-4 has a lower Overall (ASR).
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Frequently asked questions

Is Microsoft Phi-4 or Mistral Mistral 8x22B more secure?

On Guardion's LLM vulnerability Benchmark, Microsoft Phi-4 is the more secure of the two: Phi-4 scores 30.0% and Mistral 8x22B scores 31.5% on attack success rate (ASR) (lower is better). One or both scores are estimated from public safety evaluations pending a Guardion benchmark run.

What is the attack success rate (ASR) of Phi-4 vs Mistral 8x22B?

Phi-4 has a 30.0% ASR and Mistral 8x22B has a 31.5% ASR — the share of adversarial prompts that succeed across zero-shot, TAP, and Crescendo attacks. Lower is safer.

How were Phi-4 and Mistral 8x22B tested?

Both were red-teamed with the HarmBench framework across zero-shot, TAP (Tree of Attacks with Pruning), and Crescendo multi-turn attacks, scored by Attack Success Rate.

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