Model comparison

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Phi-2

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#38); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek

52.8

Rank #38 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Phi-2 specifications
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index52.8—
Released2026-09-092023-12-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M—
Max output393K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked3711

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 52.9 (#32), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
LMArena WebDev1619—
SciCode51.9%—
LMArena Coding1506—
ALE-Bench1,092—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 31.2 (#69), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
APEX-Agents39.5%—
GDP.pdf19.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 50.2 (#36), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index154.9107.94
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%—
CritPt14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1483—
Mystery Game Puzzles43%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA47%—
Surface Evolver Bench46.3%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 66.7 (#25), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)67.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%—
ProofBench54%—
LMArena Math1477—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 57.9 (#38), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
GPQA Diamond89.8%—
LMArena Expert1506—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 39.1 (#61), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
LMArena Vision1277—
Furniture Assembly34.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 55.0 (#35), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1448—
LMArena Chinese1497—
LMArena French1452—
LMArena German1484—
LMArena Japanese1412—
LMArena Korean1452—
LMArena Russian1471—
LMArena Spanish1459—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 77.3 (#26), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
LMArena Instruction Following1474—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 45.2 (#47), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 65.4 (#48), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 FlashPhi-2
LMArena Text1462—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1540—
LMArena Multi-Turn1457—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than Phi-2?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#38); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has 37 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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