Model comparison

Phi-2 vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both.

Side by side

Phi-2 and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
Phi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftMicrosoft
Noometry Index—29.3
Released2023-12-122024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1132

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Coding—20.3%
LMArena Coding—1101
HumanEval+45.1%—
MBPP+54.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Adversarial NLI42.5%58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard59.4%79.1%
HellaSwag53.6%77%
WinoGrande54.7%81.5%
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1100
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index107.94—
LiveBench—24%

Math Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Math—17.6%
LMArena Math—1151

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ARC (AI2) Challenge75.9%90.7%
MMLU58.4%75.7%
OpenBookQA73.6%88%
TriviaQA45.2%58.1%
LMArena Expert—1067

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1058
LMArena Chinese—1061
LMArena French—1135
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894
LMArena Russian—1111
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%
LMArena Instruction Following—1087

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1088

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-2: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-2Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text—1110
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
LMArena Multi-Turn—1068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-2 better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Phi-2 and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-2 has 11 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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