Model comparison

Llama 4 Scout vs phi-3-medium 14B

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.4

Rank #323 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.1

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Scout 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 knowledge, where Llama 4 Scout leads 31.8 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 62.3% for Llama 4 Scout and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

Llama 4 Scout and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Llama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index27.429.1
Released2025-04-052024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.30—
Results tracked4313

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Complete43.1%48.7%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)9.1%—
SciCode17%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1286—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard28.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index129.64121.18
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark36.9%—
ARC-AGI-10.5%—
CritPt0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1266—
DTBench57.9%—
LMCA12%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench57.5—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math phi-3-medium 14B leads

Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280), phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 562.3%17.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.8%—
Omni-MATH37.3%—
LMArena Math1286—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads

Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond51.8%27.6%
MMLU-Pro74.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.7%—
GPQA (HELM)50.7%—
LMArena Expert1236—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1118—
SpatialViz-Bench34.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1253—
LMArena Chinese1256—
LMArena French1283—
LMArena German1274—
LMArena Japanese1209—
LMArena Korean1207—
LMArena Russian1263—
LMArena Spanish1277—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
IFEval81.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench36%—
LMArena Longer Query1265—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scoutphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1279—
LMArena Creative Writing1249—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing783—
WildBench78%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Scout better than phi-3-medium 14B?

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 4 Scout or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Scout and phi-3-medium 14B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Scout has 43 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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