Model comparison

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct vs StarCoder 2 7B

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#328); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

StarCoder 2 7B NVIDIA

37.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and StarCoder 2 7B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where StarCoder 2 7B leads 34.8 to 26.6.

Side by side

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and StarCoder 2 7B specifications
Phi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
ProviderMicrosoftNVIDIA
Noometry Index27.937.0
Released2024-04-232024-02-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked357

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Category by category

Coding StarCoder 2 7B leads

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323), StarCoder 2 7B: 34.8

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
HumanEval+59.1%29.9%
LiveBench Coding15.5%—
LMArena Coding1093—
BigCodeBench Complete—27.7%
MBPP+54.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
WinoGrande70.8%57.1%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning26.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1072—
LiveBench Data Analysis34.7%—
Adversarial NLI52.8%—
BIG-Bench Hard71.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—93.56
HellaSwag76.7%—
LiveBench22.4%—

Math Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
LiveBench Math15.7%—
LMArena Math1111—
GSM8K—32.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge84.9%38.7%
MMLU68.8%38.8%
LMArena Expert1045—
OpenBookQA88%—
TriviaQA64%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Non-English1021—
LMArena Chinese1021—
LMArena French1076—
LMArena German1044—
LMArena Japanese935—
LMArena Korean905—
LMArena Russian1022—
LMArena Spanish1085—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
LiveBench Instruction Following39.1%—
LMArena Instruction Following1053—

Long Context Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Longer Query1044—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300), StarCoder 2 7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi 3 Mini 4k InstructStarCoder 2 7B
LMArena Text1073—
LMArena Creative Writing1037—
LMArena Multi-Turn1018—
LiveBench Language9.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#328); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

StarCoder 2 7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.8 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct and StarCoder 2 7B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.

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