Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp vs phi-3-medium 14B

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp DeepSeek

44.3

Rank #78 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp 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-V3.2-Exp leads 51.7 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 83.4% for DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
DeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index44.329.7
Released2025-09-292024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window164K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.26—
Output $ / M tokens$0.38—
Results tracked4913

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 46.5 (#65), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)70%—
Aider Polyglot74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1362—
SWE-bench Multilingual59%—
SciCode38.9%—
WeirdML39.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1454—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 32.7 (#59), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench39.6%—
APEX-Agents21.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard56.7%—
TheAgentCompany42.9%—
Vending-Bench 21,034—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 22.1 (#208), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index146.27121.23
ARC-AGI-24%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)36.7%—
ARC-AGI-157%—
CritPt2.9%—
Chess Puzzles14%—
Thematic Generalization65%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1434—
DTBench87.7%—
LMCA29.1%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 41.7 (#87), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions57.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202587.8%—
ProofBench8%—
LMArena Math1435—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)22.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 51.7 (#66), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond83.4%27.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.3%—
LMArena Expert1436—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 52.2 (#90), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1409—
LMArena Chinese1461—
LMArena French1433—
LMArena German1440—
LMArena Japanese1374—
LMArena Korean1371—
LMArena Russian1424—
LMArena Spanish1440—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 74.5 (#93), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1413—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 47.6 (#16), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
CL-bench13.2%—
CL-bench Life9.5%—
LMArena Longer Query1428—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 62.4 (#77), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.2-Expphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1425—
LMArena Creative Writing1403—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1515—
LMArena Multi-Turn1427—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp better than phi-3-medium 14B?

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.5 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp has 49 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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