Model comparison

GPT-3.5-turbo vs Phi-2

GPT-3.5-turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#350); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI

23.2

Rank #350 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-3.5-turbo and Phi-2 specifications
GPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index23.2—
Released2023-03-012023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window16K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$1.50—
Results tracked4411

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
HumanEval+70.7%45.1%
MBPP+69.7%54.2%
WeirdML3.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct39.1%—
LMArena Coding1136—
BigCodeBench Complete50.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: —, Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
METR Time Horizons21.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
Adversarial NLI58.1%42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard61.6%59.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.55107.94
WinoGrande81.6%54.7%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1108—
Mystery Game Puzzles3%—
DTBench48.5%—
LMCA9.7%—
CommonsenseQA 2.057%—
ForecastBench50.4—
HellaSwag—53.6%

Math Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.2%—
LMArena Math1142—
MATH Level 515.9%—
GSM8K57.8%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
ARC (AI2) Challenge87.4%75.9%
MMLU71.4%58.4%
OpenBookQA86%73.6%
TriviaQA85.8%45.2%
GPQA Diamond28%—
LMArena Expert1070—
BoolQ87%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1108—
LMArena Chinese1075—
LMArena French1118—
LMArena German1090—
LMArena Japanese1043—
LMArena Korean1019—
LMArena Russian1123—
LMArena Spanish1121—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
LMArena Instruction Following1119—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
LMArena Longer Query1121—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-3.5-turboPhi-2
LMArena Text1125—
LMArena Creative Writing1092—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing451—
LMArena Multi-Turn1117—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-3.5-turbo better than Phi-2?

GPT-3.5-turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#350); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-3.5-turbo and Phi-2 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-3.5-turbo has 44 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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