Nova Pro vs Phi-3.5-mini-instruct Comparison

Comparing Nova Pro and Phi-3.5-mini-instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

7 benchmarks

Nova Pro outperforms in 6 benchmarks (ARC-C, GPQA, GSM8k, HumanEval, MATH, MMLU), while Phi-3.5-mini-instruct is better at 1 benchmark (SQuALITY).

Nova Pro significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct costs less

For input processing, Nova Pro ($0.80/1M tokens) is 8.0x more expensive than Phi-3.5-mini-instruct ($0.10/1M tokens).

For output processing, Nova Pro ($3.20/1M tokens) is 32.0x more expensive than Phi-3.5-mini-instruct ($0.10/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Nova Pro is more expensive than Phi-3.5-mini-instruct.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Nova Pro

Input tokens$0.80

Output tokens$3.20

Best providerAWS Bedrock

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Input tokens$0.10

Output tokens$0.10

Best providerAzure

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Nova Pro accepts 300,000 input tokens compared to Phi-3.5-mini-instruct's 128,000 tokens. Nova Pro can generate longer responses up to 300,000 tokens, while Phi-3.5-mini-instruct is limited to 128,000 tokens.

Nova Pro

Input300,000 tokens

Output300,000 tokens

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Input128,000 tokens

Output128,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Nova Pro supports multimodal inputs, whereas Phi-3.5-mini-instruct does not.

Nova Pro can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Nova Pro

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Nova Pro is licensed under a proprietary license, while Phi-3.5-mini-instruct uses MIT.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Nova Pro

Proprietary

Closed source

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Nova Pro was released on 2024-11-20, while Phi-3.5-mini-instruct was released on 2024-08-23.

Nova Pro is 3 months newer than Phi-3.5-mini-instruct.

Nova Pro

Nov 20, 2024

1.3 years ago

2mo newer

Phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Aug 23, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Provider Availability

Nova Pro is available from Bedrock. Phi-3.5-mini-instruct is available from Azure. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.