Model comparison

DeepSeek-R1 vs phi-3-medium 14B

DeepSeek-R1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek

42.3

Rank #115 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where DeepSeek-R1 leads 44.5 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 96.6% for DeepSeek-R1 and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-R1 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
DeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index42.329.7
Released2025-01-202024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window164K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$2.15—
Results tracked5213

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 46.3 (#68), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
Aider Polyglot71.4%—
SciCode35.7%—
WeirdML41.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LiveBench Coding66.7%—
LMArena Coding1427—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench804.12—
AlgoTune1.7—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1: 30.7 (#75), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
BALROG34.9%—
METR Time Horizons53.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1: 18.6 (#278), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index141.29121.23
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench40.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark69.4%—
ARC-AGI-121.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning83.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1416—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.8%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—82.4%
LiveBench71.6%—
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 43.8 (#79), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 596.6%17.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.4%—
Omni-MATH42.4%—
LiveBench Math80.7%—
LMArena Math1400—

Knowledge DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 44.5 (#87), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond76.3%27.6%
MMLU-Pro79.3%—
Confabulations12.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.3%—
GPQA (HELM)66.6%—
LMArena Expert1394—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1: 52.4 (#85), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1412—
LMArena Chinese1442—
LMArena French1417—
LMArena German1404—
LMArena Japanese1391—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Russian1423—
LMArena Spanish1411—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1: 72.0 (#143), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following80.5%—
IFEval78.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1382—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1: 45.4 (#36), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench75%—
LMArena Longer Query1391—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1: 61.4 (#88), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1428—
LMArena Creative Writing1405—
Short-Story Creative Writing83%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1500—
WildBench82.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1405—
LiveBench Language48.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-R1 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

DeepSeek-R1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-R1 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

DeepSeek-R1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-R1 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-R1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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