Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3 vs phi-3-medium 14B

DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

39.5

Rank #166 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where DeepSeek-V3 leads 37.5 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 75.5% for DeepSeek-V3 and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
DeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.529.7
Released2024-12-262024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window164K—
Max output164K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.24—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked6013

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct50%37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete62.2%48.7%
Aider Polyglot55.1%—
SciCode35.8%—
WeirdML36.1%—
LiveBench Coding70.9%—
LMArena Coding1368—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: —, phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
METR Time Horizons49.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
BIG-Bench Hard87.5%81.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.94121.23
HellaSwag88.9%82.4%
WinoGrande85.2%81.5%
SimpleBench27.2%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning65.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1365—
DTBench64.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA15.5%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
ForecastBench59.1—
LiveBench66.9%—
PIQA84.7%—

Math DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 575.5%17.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%—
Omni-MATH40.3%—
LiveBench Math73.5%—
LMArena Math1373—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond67.6%27.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%91.6%
MMLU87.2%78%
TriviaQA82.9%73.9%
MMLU-Pro72.3%—
Confabulations26.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.1%—
GPQA (HELM)53.8%—
LMArena Expert1351—
OpenBookQA—87.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1358—
LMArena Chinese1391—
LMArena French1385—
LMArena German1374—
LMArena Japanese1333—
LMArena Korean1319—
LMArena Russian1373—
LMArena Spanish1358—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following81.5%—
IFEval83.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1345—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench50%—
LMArena Longer Query1352—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1375—
LMArena Creative Writing1364—
Short-Story Creative Writing77%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1472—
WildBench83%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1389—
LiveBench Language49.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-V3 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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