Model comparison

Phi-2 vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#328); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Phi-2 and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
Phi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftMicrosoft
Noometry Index—27.9
Released2023-12-122024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1135

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
HumanEval+45.1%59.1%
MBPP+54.2%54.2%
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
LMArena Coding—1093

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Adversarial NLI42.5%52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard59.4%71.7%
HellaSwag53.6%76.7%
WinoGrande54.7%70.8%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1072
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index107.94—
LiveBench—22.4%

Math Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Math—15.7%
LMArena Math—1111

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ARC (AI2) Challenge75.9%84.9%
MMLU58.4%68.8%
OpenBookQA73.6%88%
TriviaQA45.2%64%
LMArena Expert—1045

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1021
LMArena Chinese—1021
LMArena French—1076
LMArena German—1044
LMArena Japanese—935
LMArena Korean—905
LMArena Russian—1022
LMArena Spanish—1085

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%
LMArena Instruction Following—1053

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1044

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text—1073
LMArena Creative Writing—1037
LMArena Multi-Turn—1018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

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

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#328); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-2 has 11 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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