# Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 vs phi-3-medium 14B

> Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-2-mini-vs-phi-3-medium-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 leads 33.4 to 9.1.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 37.0 | 29.1 |
| Rank | 196 | 306 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 36.4 (#194)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1269 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |

## Reasoning

- Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 23.7 (#162)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1255 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 121.18 |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 32.8 (#185)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1265 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |

## Knowledge

- Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 33.4 (#195)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1238 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 41.6 (#203)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1262 | — |
| LMArena French | 1285 | — |
| LMArena German | 1273 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1213 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1195 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1261 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1278 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 65.7 (#215)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1245 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 38.4 (#191)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1267 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13: 47.5 (#207)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1281 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1242 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (36.4 vs 36.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 2 Mini 2024 08 13 has 17 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.