Model comparison

Palm 2 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Palm 2 Google

29.4

Rank #296 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.4

Rank #324 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Palm 2 scores higher in 4 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads 26.5 to 21.1.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Palm 2 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Palm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderGoogleMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.427.4
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1035

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Category by category

Coding Palm 2 leads

Palm 2: 28.5 (#306), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding9951093
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Palm 2 leads

Palm 2: 18.2 (#270), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts10051072
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 Palm 2 leads

Palm 2: 28.4 (#229), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math10491111
LiveBench Math—15.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Palm 2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert—1045
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
MMLU—68.8%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multilingual Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Palm 2: 21.1 (#290), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English9161021
LMArena Chinese8871021
LMArena French—1075
LMArena German—1044
LMArena Japanese—935
LMArena Korean—905
LMArena Russian—1022
LMArena Spanish—1084

Instruction Following Palm 2 leads

Palm 2: 51.3 (#291), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following10101053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context Too close to call

Palm 2: 30.7 (#280), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query10101044

Writing & Preference Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

Palm 2: 25.7 (#299), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPalm 2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text10271073
LMArena Creative Writing9911037
LMArena Multi-Turn9941018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Palm 2 better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Palm 2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.4 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Palm 2 or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Palm 2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.5 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Palm 2 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Palm 2 has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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