phi-3-mini 3.8B: benchmark scores, price and ranking

phi-3-mini 3.8B from Microsoft is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation
Microsoft
Type
Open-weight / local model
Open weights
Yes
Released
2024-04-23 (source: epoch)
Aggregate rank
Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, phi-3-mini 3.8B is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

phi-3-mini 3.8B benchmark results

phi-3-mini 3.8B benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
BenchmarkScoreRankSourceCaptured
Epoch ECI117#139 of 204Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub2026-10-13

About phi-3-mini 3.8B

phi-3-mini 3.8B is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Microsoft. It was released on 2024-04-23, according to Epoch AI. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where phi-3-mini 3.8B stands

phi-3-mini 3.8B has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

phi-3-mini 3.8B, benchmark by benchmark

phi-3-mini 3.8B lands below the middle on Epoch ECI: 117, #139 of 204, with 68% of the field scoring higher. Qwen 3.8 Max leads at 156; the closest result above is Yi-34B at 117. It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so phi-3-mini 3.8B is 10 points below it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Release history

The Microsoft model released before it was Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct on 2024-04-23, which scores 44.0. The next one was Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct on 2024-04-23, at 46.2.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.

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