# Phi-2 vs phi-3-medium 14B

> phi-3-medium 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#306); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-2-vs-phi-3-medium-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | Phi-2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | — | 29.1 |
| Rank | — | 306 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Phi-2: —
- phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| HumanEval+ | 45.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Phi-2: —
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Adversarial NLI | 42.5% | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 59.4% | 81.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 107.62 | 121.18 |
| HellaSwag | 53.6% | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | 54.7% | 81.5% |

## Math

- Phi-2: —
- phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |

## Knowledge

- Phi-2: —
- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

| Benchmark | Phi-2 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 75.9% | 91.6% |
| MMLU | 58.4% | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | 73.6% | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | 45.2% | 73.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |

## FAQ

### Is Phi-2 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

phi-3-medium 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#306); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Phi-2 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-2 has 11 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.