Model comparison
Palm 2 vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Palm 2 and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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MicrosoftSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Palm 2 scores higher in 3 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 28.5 to 20.9.
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 29.3 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Palm 2 leads
Palm 2: 29.0 (#311), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 994 | 1101 |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 20.3% |
Reasoning Palm 2 leads
Palm 2: 19.1 (#271), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1005 | 1100 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 30.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
| LiveBench | — | 24% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Palm 2 leads
Palm 2: 30.8 (#231), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1049 | 1151 |
| LiveBench Math | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Palm 2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1067 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| MMLU | — | 75.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |
Multilingual Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Palm 2: 20.9 (#295), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 916 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 887 | 1061 |
| LMArena French | — | 1135 |
| LMArena German | — | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Palm 2: 51.0 (#296), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1010 | 1087 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 47.2% |
Long Context Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Palm 2: 30.8 (#285), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1010 | 1088 |
Writing & Preference Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Palm 2: 25.6 (#304), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)
| Benchmark | Palm 2 | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1027 | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 991 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 994 | 1068 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 12.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Palm 2 better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?
Palm 2 and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.0 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Palm 2 or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?
Palm 2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.0 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.