# Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct vs Yi-Large

> Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-3-small-8k-instruct-vs-yi-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Yi-Large in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Yi-Large leads 36.7 to 27.9.
- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 38.1 |
| Rank | 314 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)
- Yi-Large: 36.7 (#203)

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1101 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 47.2% |

## Reasoning

- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 15.9% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1100 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 30.3% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 58.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 79.1% | — |
| HellaSwag | 77% | — |
| LiveBench | 24% | — |
| WinoGrande | 81.5% | — |

## Math

- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 17.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1151 | — |

## Knowledge

- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 75.7% | 79.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1067 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 90.7% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 88% | — |
| TriviaQA | 58.1% | — |

## Multilingual

- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1058 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1061 | — |
| LMArena French | 1135 | — |
| LMArena German | 1080 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 966 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 894 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1111 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1111 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 47.2% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1087 | — |

## Long Context

- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1088 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)
- Yi-Large: —

| Benchmark | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1110 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1083 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1068 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 12.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better than Yi-Large?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct or Yi-Large better for coding?

Yi-Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct and Yi-Large share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.