Model comparison

Codellama 70b Instruct vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Codellama 70b Instruct Meta

33.7

Rank #237 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Codellama 70b Instruct leads 37.6 to 27.9.

Side by side

Codellama 70b Instruct and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
Codellama 70b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index33.729.3
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked732

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Category by category

Coding Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 37.6 (#193), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct40.7%—
LiveBench Coding—20.3%
LMArena Coding—1101
BigCodeBench Complete49.6%—
HumanEval+65.9%—

Reasoning Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 20.1 (#242), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10521100
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 Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Math—17.6%
LMArena Math—1151

Knowledge Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi 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

Codellama 70b Instruct: 24.8 (#288), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English9921058
LMArena Chinese—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

Codellama 70b Instruct: 51.9 (#293), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10241087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%

Long Context Not comparable

Codellama 70b Instruct: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1088

Writing & Preference Codellama 70b Instruct leads

Codellama 70b Instruct: 33.4 (#277), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodellama 70b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text10571110
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
LMArena Multi-Turn—1068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Codellama 70b Instruct better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Codellama 70b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codellama 70b Instruct or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Codellama 70b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codellama 70b Instruct and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codellama 70b Instruct has 7 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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