Model comparison

Llama 3.1-405B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3.1-405B Meta

30.7

Rank #288 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.1-405B scores higher in 7 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 3.1-405B leads 65.9 to 47.7.

Side by side

Llama 3.1-405B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Llama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.727.9
Released2024-07-232024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4235

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 33.1 (#262), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding12911093
WeirdML21.4%—
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3.1-405B: 21.0 (#140), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
TheAgentCompany7.4%—
Cybench7.5%—

Reasoning Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 16.8 (#300), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12691072
BIG-Bench Hard82.9%71.7%
HellaSwag89.2%76.7%
WinoGrande89.2%70.8%
SimpleBench23%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark45%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
DTBench61.4%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.75—
ForecastBench59.9—
LiveBench—22.4%
PIQA85.9%—

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 18.4 (#290), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math12811111
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20259.7%—
Omni-MATH24.9%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%
MATH Level 549.8%—

Knowledge Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#227), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert12431045
ARC (AI2) Challenge95.3%84.9%
MMLU84.5%68.8%
TriviaQA82.7%64%
GPQA Diamond50.9%—
MMLU-Pro72.3%—
Confabulations17.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52.2%—
OpenBookQA—88%

Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 40.7 (#214), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12481021
LMArena Chinese12421021
LMArena French12791076
LMArena German12521044
LMArena Japanese1208935
LMArena Korean1184905
LMArena Russian12651022
LMArena Spanish12601085

Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 65.9 (#214), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12591053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%
IFEval81.1%—

Long Context Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#197), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12661044

Writing & Preference Llama 3.1-405B leads

Llama 3.1-405B: 38.9 (#251), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.1-405BPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text12841073
LMArena Creative Writing12621037
LMArena Multi-Turn12971018
EQ-Bench Creative Writing870—
WildBench78.3%—
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.1-405B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Llama 3.1-405B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.7 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3.1-405B or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Llama 3.1-405B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.1 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.1-405B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.1-405B has 42 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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