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Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct

Microsoft

Strongest in Jailbreak resistance (#46 of 272), weakest in Fairness (#241 of 299). Above par in 4 of 6 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Sonnet 5 and MiniMax M2.7 and ahead of Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct and Llama 3 70B Instruct.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Safety52.7−8.8#110/3361/3

Jailbreak resistance60−4.9#46/2721/1

Harm refusal55.2−6.4#70/2991/2

Toxicity avoidance55.3−3.7#102/2721/1

Secure code49−17.5#168/2741/1

Fairness43.1−26.9#241/2991/2

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Phi 3.5 Mini Instruct, left for the other.

OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

DBRX Instructwon 6 · lost 0

H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Smollm2 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7b Dpowon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Aya 23 8Bwon 6 · lost 0

GPT-3.5 Turbowon 6 · lost 0

H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Mimo V2.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 0

Command R Pluswon 6 · lost 0

Open Mixtral 8x7bwon 6 · lost 0

Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 6 · lost 0

QwQ 32Bwon 6 · lost 0

SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Llama 3.3 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 6 · lost 0

Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 5 · lost 1

OLMo 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1

RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

PowerMoE 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

Phi 2won 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 7B Itwon 5 · lost 1

PowerLM 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 350Mwon 5 · lost 1

Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Laguna Xs 2.1won 5 · lost 1

RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

CodeLlama 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1

Jamba Mini 1.7won 5 · lost 1

OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 2B Itwon 5 · lost 1

Grok 3won 5 · lost 1

Magistral Smallwon 5 · lost 1

Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 5 · lost 1

Zephyr 7B Betawon 5 · lost 1

Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 5 · lost 1

Magistral Mediumwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 5 · lost 1

Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 5 · lost 1

Command R7Bwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 700Mwon 5 · lost 1

Command Awon 5 · lost 1

Jamba Large 1.7won 5 · lost 1

SmolLM 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 5 · lost 1

Jamba 1.5 Largewon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Open Codestral Mambawon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek V3won 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 1.2Bwon 5 · lost 1

Aya 23 35Bwon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 E2Bwon 5 · lost 1

Jamba 1.6 Largewon 5 · lost 1

GLM-4.5won 5 · lost 1

Jamba Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Sarvam 1won 5 · lost 1

Mistral Smallwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek Reasonerwon 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Mistral Small 24B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Komodo 7B Basewon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 12Bwon 5 · lost 1

IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 5 · lost 1

Gemini 2.0 Flash Litewon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 3 4B Itwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (8B)won 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 31Bwon 5 · lost 1

Gemini 1.5 Prowon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (405B)won 5 · lost 1

Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (7B)won 5 · lost 1

Sarvam 30Bwon 5 · lost 1

Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 5 · lost 1

Mistral Largewon 5 · lost 1

Grok 4.1 Fastwon 4 · lost 2

GLM-4 9B Chatwon 4 · lost 2

Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 4 · lost 2

Qwen2 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Grok 4won 4 · lost 2

Laguna S 2.1won 4 · lost 2

Grok Build 0.1won 4 · lost 2

Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek R1won 4 · lost 2

Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen3 8Bwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 2 9B Itwon 4 · lost 2

GLM-5.2won 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 4 · lost 2

Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 2

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2won 4 · lost 2

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 4 · lost 2

GLM-4.6won 4 · lost 2

Grok 4.3won 4 · lost 2

Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 4 · lost 2

Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek V3p1won 4 · lost 2

Kimi K2.6won 4 · lost 2

Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 4 E4Bwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen3.7 Maxwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 4 · lost 2

Kimi K2.5won 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek V3.2won 4 · lost 2

Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 2 2B Itwon 4 · lost 2

Kimi K2.7 Codewon 4 · lost 2

Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Fuguwon 4 · lost 2

Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Open Mixtral 8x22bwon 4 · lost 2

Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 4 · lost 2

Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek Chatwon 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek V4 Prowon 4 · lost 2

Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 4 · lost 2

Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 2

Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 2

GLM-5 Turbowon 4 · lost 2

Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen3 Vl 235B A22B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Gemma 3 27B Itwon 4 · lost 2

Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

GPT-5.6 Astrawon 4 · lost 2

Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 4 · lost 2

GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 4 · lost 2

Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 4 · lost 2

EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 4 · lost 2

Apertus 70B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 4 · lost 2

GPT-6 Solwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3 70B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Claude Opus 4.6won 2 · lost 2

Ling 3.0 Flashwon 3 · lost 3

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 3 · lost 3

MiniMax M3won 3 · lost 3

Mimo V2.5 Prowon 3 · lost 3

Starling Lm 7B Betawon 3 · lost 3

GLM-5.3 Flashwon 3 · lost 3

Apertus 8B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

GPT OSS 20Bwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Kimi K2won 3 · lost 3

Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Mimo V2.6 Prowon 3 · lost 3

Gemma 3 12B Itwon 3 · lost 3

SeaLLM 7B V2won 3 · lost 3

Granite 4.0 H Microwon 3 · lost 3

Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3 Small 8k Instructwon 3 · lost 3

K2 Chatwon 3 · lost 3

GPT-4.1 Nanowon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Nova Prowon 3 · lost 3

GPT-5.6 Solwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen3.8 Maxwon 3 · lost 3

GLM-5.1won 3 · lost 3

GPT-4.1 Miniwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen3.5 27Bwon 3 · lost 3

GPT-6 Lunawon 3 · lost 3

Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 3 · lost 3

GPT-4won 3 · lost 3

Nova Microwon 3 · lost 3

GPT-5.6 Lunawon 3 · lost 3

Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct HFwon 3 · lost 3

Fugu Ultra V2won 3 · lost 3

Grok 4.5won 3 · lost 3

GPT-5.5won 3 · lost 3

GPT-5.6 Terrawon 3 · lost 3

Grok 4.6won 3 · lost 3

Claude 3 Haikuwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3 70B Chat HFwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4o Miniwon 2 · lost 4

Krutrim 2 Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 2 · lost 4

EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen Maxwon 2 · lost 4

O4 Miniwon 2 · lost 4

Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Nova Litewon 2 · lost 4

C4ai Aya Expanse 32Bwon 2 · lost 4

GPT OSS 120Bwon 2 · lost 4

Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Nova Premierwon 2 · lost 4

Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 2 · lost 4

Sarvam 105Bwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4owon 2 · lost 4

GPT-5.4won 2 · lost 4

Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct Turbowon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4.1won 2 · lost 4

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (72B)won 2 · lost 4

Gemma 2 27B Itwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-5.1won 2 · lost 4

Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Claude Opus 5won 2 · lost 4

MiniMax M2won 2 · lost 4

Claude Opus 5.5won 2 · lost 4

Claude Sonnet 4.6won 1 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 1 · lost 5

C4ai Aya Expanse 8Bwon 1 · lost 5

Titan Text Express V1won 1 · lost 5

Llama 2 13B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5

Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen2 72B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

O3 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

Claude Haiku 4.5won 1 · lost 5

Cogito 671B V2 P1won 1 · lost 5

Claude Sonnet 4.5won 1 · lost 5

Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

O1 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

Claude Sonnet 4won 1 · lost 5

Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 1 · lost 5

O3won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5 Nanowon 1 · lost 5

Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 5

Hy3won 1 · lost 5

Llama 3 8B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 0 · lost 6

Llama 2 70B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 2 7B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6

Claude 3 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 6

Claude Opus 4won 0 · lost 6

Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 6

Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 0 · lost 6

GPT-4 Turbowon 0 · lost 6

O1won 0 · lost 6

Phi 4won 0 · lost 6

Claude 3 Opuswon 0 · lost 6

Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 6

Inklingwon 0 · lost 6

Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 6

Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 6

MiniMax M2.7won 0 · lost 6

Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 6

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

1 publication, 6 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-09-27

Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 4.3%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 20.6%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 8%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 2.6%Enkrypt · Bias risk 88.6%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 35.6%

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