Model comparison

phi-3-medium 14B vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct

phi-3-medium 14B and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct Microsoft

29.7

Rank #305 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. phi-3-medium 14B scores higher in 1 category and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads 26.8 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 48.7% for phi-3-medium 14B and 40.6% for Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct.

Side by side

phi-3-medium 14B and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct specifications
phi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.729.7
Released2024-04-232024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1319

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct37.6%29.6%
BigCodeBench Complete48.7%40.6%
LMArena Coding—1039

Reasoning Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts—1028
Adversarial NLI55.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard81.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index121.23—
HellaSwag82.4%—
WinoGrande81.5%—

Math Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Math—1089
MATH Level 517.6%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
GPQA Diamond27.6%—
LMArena Expert—984
ARC (AI2) Challenge91.6%—
MMLU78%—
OpenBookQA87.4%—
TriviaQA73.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1000
LMArena Chinese—1016
LMArena French—1039
LMArena German—1006
LMArena Japanese—899
LMArena Korean—856
LMArena Russian—1004
LMArena Spanish—1059

Instruction Following Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following—1023

Long Context Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—996

Writing & Preference Not comparable

phi-3-medium 14B: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkphi-3-medium 14BPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Text—1050
LMArena Creative Writing—1024
LMArena Multi-Turn—989

Frequently asked questions

Is phi-3-medium 14B better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?

phi-3-medium 14B and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.7 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is phi-3-medium 14B or Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do phi-3-medium 14B and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. phi-3-medium 14B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.

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