Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Phi-3.5-mini

DeepSeek V4 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#35); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek

53.6

Rank #35 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek V4 Flash leads 47.9 to 34.6.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Flash and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
DeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index53.636.9
Released2026-04-242024-08-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M—
Max output393K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked415

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 47.9 (#59), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
FrontierCode18.8%—
LMArena WebDev1582—
SciCode49.9%—
WeirdML63%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LMArena Coding1457—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%
ALE-Bench1,306—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.7 (#30), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
ARC-AGI-261.4%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%—
ARC-AGI-189%—
CritPt16.6%—
Chess Puzzles33%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1444—
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA41.7%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.49—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 60.3 (#37), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench56%—
LMArena Math1427—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 55.4 (#48), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified33.6%—
LMArena Expert1441—
BoolQ—78%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.0 (#72), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1420—
LMArena Chinese1468—
LMArena French1439—
LMArena German1418—
LMArena Japanese1406—
LMArena Korean1384—
LMArena Russian1428—
LMArena Spanish1436—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 74.9 (#81), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Instruction Following1421—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 43.8 (#85), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1434—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 63.8 (#61), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1432—
LMArena Creative Writing1403—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559—
LMArena Multi-Turn1449—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash better than Phi-3.5-mini?

DeepSeek V4 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#35); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.9 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Flash and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Flash has 41 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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