Model comparison

Llama 3.1-405B vs Phi-4 Mini

Llama 3.1-405B and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.4

Rank #279 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.4

Rank #280 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 30.4 to 24.8.

Side by side

Llama 3.1-405B and Phi-4 Mini specifications
Llama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.430.4
Released2024-07-232024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.075
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked423

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257), Phi-4 Mini: 27.6 (#312)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
SciCode—10.8%
WeirdML21.4%—
LMArena Coding1291—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131), Phi-4 Mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
TheAgentCompany7.4%—
Cybench7.5%—

Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293), Phi-4 Mini: 21.7 (#190)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
SimpleBench23%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark45%—
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1270—
DTBench61.4%—
BIG-Bench Hard82.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.76—
ForecastBench59.9—
HellaSwag89.2%—
PIQA85.9%—
WinoGrande89.2%—

Math Not comparable

Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283), Phi-4 Mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20259.7%—
Omni-MATH24.9%—
LMArena Math1281—
MATH Level 549.8%—

Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221), Phi-4 Mini: 24.8 (#261)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
GPQA Diamond50.9%—
MMLU-Pro72.3%—
Confabulations17.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.5%
GPQA (HELM)52.2%—
LMArena Expert1243—
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%—
MMLU84.5%—
TriviaQA82.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Non-English1248—
LMArena Chinese1242—
LMArena French1278—
LMArena German1252—
LMArena Japanese1208—
LMArena Korean1184—
LMArena Russian1265—
LMArena Spanish1259—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209), Phi-4 Mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
IFEval81.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1259—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192), Phi-4 Mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Longer Query1266—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246), Phi-4 Mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Text1284—
LMArena Creative Writing1262—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing870—
WildBench78.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1297—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.1-405B better than Phi-4 Mini?

Llama 3.1-405B and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Llama 3.1-405B or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

Llama 3.1-405B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.7 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-405B and Phi-4 Mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-405B has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.

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