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Phi-1.5 vs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)

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Winner summary

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · math · reasoning.

Category leads
general·Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)knowledge·Phi-1.5language·Phi-1.5math·Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)reasoning·Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
Hype vs Reality
Phi-1.5
#221 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
#232 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Phi-1.5
no price
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
$0.00/M
Vendor risk
Microsoft logo
Microsoft
$3.00T·Big Tech
Low risk
Meta logo
Meta AI
$1.50T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Phi-1.5Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
BBH (HuggingFace)
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) leads by +6.8
Phi-1.5
7.5
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
14.2
GPQA
Phi-1.5
2.4
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
2.4
IFEval
Phi-1.5 leads by +7.0
Phi-1.5
20.3
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
13.4
MATH Level 5
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) leads by +0.1
Phi-1.5
1.8
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
1.9
MMLU-PRO
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) leads by +8.9
Phi-1.5
7.7
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
16.5
MUSR
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free) leads by +0.4
Phi-1.5
3.4
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
3.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkPhi-1.5Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)
BBH (HuggingFace)
7.514.2
GPQA
2.42.4
IFEval
20.313.4
MATH Level 5
1.81.9
MMLU-PRO
7.716.5
MUSR
3.43.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Microsoft logoPhi-1.5
Meta logoLlama 3.2 3B Instruct (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)