Model comparison

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct vs StarCoder 2 3B

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#246); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

32.4

Rank #246 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 3B NVIDIA

35.8

Unranked Sparse

Side by side

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and StarCoder 2 3B specifications
Phi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
ProviderMicrosoftNVIDIA
Noometry Index32.435.8
Released—2024-02-22
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked177

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.3 (#263), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Coding1130—
BigCodeBench Complete—21.4%
HumanEval+—27.4%

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 20.8 (#214), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts1127—
Epoch Capabilities Index—88.01
WinoGrande—57.1%

Math Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.9 (#202), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Math1173—
GSM8K—21.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 29.6 (#226), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Expert1108—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—34.2%
MMLU—36.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.8 (#258), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Non-English1094—
LMArena Chinese1108—
LMArena French1109—
LMArena German1101—
LMArena Japanese1042—
LMArena Korean954—
LMArena Russian1145—
LMArena Spanish1095—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.8 (#263), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1114—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.9 (#250), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Longer Query1120—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.3 (#267), StarCoder 2 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Medium 4k InstructStarCoder 2 3B
LMArena Text1138—
LMArena Creative Writing1106—
LMArena Multi-Turn1088—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#246); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.3 vs 32.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct and StarCoder 2 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.

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