Model comparison

Kimi K2.5 Instant vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.6 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Kimi K2.5 Instant Moonshot AI

43.6

Rank #89 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Kimi K2.5 Instant leads 60.6 to 27.6.

Side by side

Kimi K2.5 Instant and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Kimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderMoonshot AIMicrosoft
Noometry Index43.627.9
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
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Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1835

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Category by category

Coding Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 42.6 (#97), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding14841093
LMArena WebDev1404—
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 29.7 (#90), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14431072
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 39.4 (#105), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math14421111
LiveBench Math—15.7%

Knowledge Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#123), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert14401045
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 40.2 (#50), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1254—

Multilingual Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 52.0 (#94), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English14061021
LMArena Chinese14491021
LMArena French14031076
LMArena German14131044
LMArena Korean1378905
LMArena Russian14041022
LMArena Spanish14471085
LMArena Japanese—935

Instruction Following Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 75.3 (#65), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14301053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 43.9 (#83), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14351044

Writing & Preference Kimi K2.5 Instant leads

Kimi K2.5 Instant: 60.6 (#95), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkKimi K2.5 InstantPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text14201073
LMArena Creative Writing13811037
LMArena Multi-Turn14271018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Kimi K2.5 Instant better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Kimi K2.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.6 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Kimi K2.5 Instant or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Kimi K2.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.6 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Kimi K2.5 Instant and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Kimi K2.5 Instant has 18 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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