# Llama 2-34B vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

> Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#250); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-2-34b-vs-phi-3-medium-4k-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | — | 33.0 |
| Rank | — | 250 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1130 |

## Reasoning

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1127 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 44.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 105.2 | — |
| PIQA | 81.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 76.7% | — |

## Math

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1173 |
| GSM8K | 42.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1108 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 54.5% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.7% | — |
| MMLU | 62.6% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 84.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1094 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1108 |
| LMArena French | — | 1110 |
| LMArena German | — | 1101 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1042 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 954 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1145 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1095 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1113 |

## Long Context

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1120 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 2-34B: —
- Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

| Benchmark | Llama 2-34B | Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1138 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1107 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1088 |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 2-34B better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#250); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 2-34B and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-34B has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.