Model comparison

Llama 3.2 3B vs Phi-2

Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#318); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3.2 3B Meta

28.4

Rank #318 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

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Llama 3.2 3B and Phi-2 specifications
Llama 3.2 3BPhi-2
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index28.4—
Released2024-09-242023-12-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.05—
Output $ / M tokens$0.33—
Results tracked1811

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 27.1 (#314), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
BigCodeBench Instruct23.4%—
LMArena Coding1098—
BigCodeBench Complete28.3%—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 19.9 (#135), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard21.9%—
BALROG10.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#225), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
LMArena Hard Prompts1095—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—107.62
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 29.9 (#213), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
LMArena Math1126—

Knowledge Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 29.1 (#232), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
LMArena Expert1090—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 26.4 (#276), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1019—
LMArena Chinese1017—
LMArena German1056—
LMArena Russian949—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 56.3 (#270), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
LMArena Instruction Following1089—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#256), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
LMArena Longer Query1101—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 3.2 3B: 24.9 (#302), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 3.2 3BPhi-2
LMArena Text1110—
LMArena Creative Writing1094—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing595—
LMArena Multi-Turn1105—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.2 3B better than Phi-2?

Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#318); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 3B and Phi-2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 3B has 18 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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