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Llama 3-70B vs phi-3-small 7.4B

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Winner summary

phi-3-small 7.4B wins 3 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
knowledge·phi-3-small 7.4B
Hype vs Reality
Llama 3-70B
#257 by perf·#19 by attention
QUIET
phi-3-small 7.4B
#32 by perf·#20 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
Llama 3-70B
n/a
no price
phi-3-small 7.4B
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.65T·Tier 1
Low risk
Microsoft logo
Microsoft
$3.96T·Big Tech
Low risk
Head to head
Llama 3-70Bphi-3-small 7.4B
ANLI
phi-3-small 7.4B leads by +1.2
ANLI (Adversarial NLI) · adversarially constructed natural language inference dataset where each round targets weaknesses found in previous model generations.
Llama 3-70B
36.0
phi-3-small 7.4B
37.1
ARC AI2
phi-3-small 7.4B leads by +10.5
AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval.
Llama 3-70B
77.1
phi-3-small 7.4B
87.6
MMLU
Llama 3-70B leads by +4.8
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Llama 3-70B
72.4
phi-3-small 7.4B
67.6
OpenBookQA
phi-3-small 7.4B leads by +7.2
OpenBookQA · science questions that require combining a given core fact with broad common knowledge, mimicking an open-book exam setting.
Llama 3-70B
76.8
phi-3-small 7.4B
84.0
TriviaQA
Llama 3-70B leads by +9.6
TriviaQA · reading comprehension benchmark with trivia questions, requiring models to find and reason over evidence from provided documents.
Llama 3-70B
67.7
phi-3-small 7.4B
58.1
Winogrande
Llama 3-70B leads by +4.0
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
Llama 3-70B
67.0
phi-3-small 7.4B
63.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkLlama 3-70Bphi-3-small 7.4B
ANLI
ANLI (Adversarial NLI) · adversarially constructed natural language inference dataset where each round targets weaknesses found in previous model generations.
36.037.1
ARC AI2
AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval.
77.187.6
MMLU
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
72.467.6
OpenBookQA
OpenBookQA · science questions that require combining a given core fact with broad common knowledge, mimicking an open-book exam setting.
76.884.0
TriviaQA
TriviaQA · reading comprehension benchmark with trivia questions, requiring models to find and reason over evidence from provided documents.
67.758.1
Winogrande
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
67.063.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Meta logoLlama 3-70Bn/an/an/an/a
Microsoft logophi-3-small 7.4Bn/an/an/an/a