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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math

Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct wins:

  • Higher intelligence benchmark
Price Advantage
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Benchmark Advantage
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Context Window
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Speed
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricLlama 3.3 70B InstructPhi-3 Medium 128K InstructWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$0.10$1.00 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Output (per 1M tokens)$0.32$1.00 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.13N/A Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is 85% cheaper overall.

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Providers

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Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct Providers

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Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmarks Compared
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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Wins
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Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkLlama 3.3 70B InstructPhi-3 Medium 128K InstructWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
14.532.0
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
10.7--
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
7.7--
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
71.341.2
GPQA
Graduate-level science
49.811.5
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
28.8--
Aider
Real-world code editing
59.4--
AIME
Competition math
30.0--
BBH
Big-Bench Hard
-48.5-
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
131,072
tokens
Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct
128,000
tokens
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has a 2% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricLlama 3.3 70B InstructPhi-3 Medium 128K InstructWinner
Tokens/second99.5 tok/sN/A
Time to First Token0.54sN/A

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureLlama 3.3 70B InstructPhi-3 Medium 128K Instruct
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyLlama 3.3 70B InstructPhi-3 Medium 128K Instruct
LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source
AuthorMeta-llamaMicrosoft
ReleasedDec 2024Unknown

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct Modalities

Input
Output

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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has cheaper input pricing at $0.10/M tokens. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has cheaper output pricing at $0.32/M tokens.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 10.7, compared to Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct's score of N/A.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has a 131,072 token context window, while Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct has a 128,000 token context window.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct does not support vision. Phi-3 Medium 128K Instruct does not support vision.