# Llama 3.2 3B vs Phi-1.5

> Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-3-2-3b-vs-phi-1-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 28.9 | — |
| Rank | 321 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.05 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.33 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 23.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1098 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 28.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 21.9% | — |
| BALROG | 10.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1095 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 91.53 |
| HellaSwag | — | 47.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 73.4% |

## Math

- Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1126 | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1090 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 44.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 75.8% |
| MMLU | — | 37.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 37.2% |

## Multilingual

- Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1019 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1017 | — |
| LMArena German | 1056 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 949 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1089 | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1100 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)
- Phi-1.5: —

| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 3B | Phi-1.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1110 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1094 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 595 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1105 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 3.2 3B better than Phi-1.5?

Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 3B and Phi-1.5 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 3B has 18 scored results on Noometry and Phi-1.5 has 7.