Model comparison
Llama 3-70B vs phi-3-medium 14B
Llama 3-70B and phi-3-medium 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
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MicrosoftSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-70B scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where phi-3-medium 14B leads 27.3 to 12.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Llama 3-70B and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
Side by side
| Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2024-04-18 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 31 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads
Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.6% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54.5% | 48.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1206 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 72% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 5% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.93 | 121.23 |
| WinoGrande | 83.5% | 81.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 35.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1195 | — |
| DTBench | 54.2% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| ForecastBench | 57.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
Math phi-3-medium 14B leads
Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | 22.6% | 17.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1218 | — |
Knowledge Llama 3-70B leads
Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 27.6% |
| MMLU | 79.3% | 78% |
| LMArena Expert | 1149 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1142 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1114 | — |
| LMArena French | 1232 | — |
| LMArena German | 1169 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1017 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1017 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1159 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1241 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1194 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1174 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Llama 3-70B | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1210 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1223 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3-70B better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Llama 3-70B and phi-3-medium 14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Llama 3-70B or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3-70B and phi-3-medium 14B share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-70B has 31 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.