Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs phi-3-medium 14B

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek

54.3

Rank #31 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 59.5 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 91.7% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Pro and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
DeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.329.7
Released2026-04-242024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M—
Max output393K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.66—
Output $ / M tokens$1.98—
Results tracked4813

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.4 (#34), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified77.6%—
FrontierCode28.6%—
LMArena WebDev1582—
SciCode51%—
WeirdML66.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1470—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,403—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.8 (#58), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
APEX-Agents47.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,285—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.5 (#24), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index155.31121.23
ARC-AGI-261.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-190.5%—
CritPt18%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1461—
Mystery Game Puzzles43%—
DTBench93.9%—
LMCA45.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench40%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench56.1—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.8 (#30), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)64.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.6%—
ProofBench50%—
LMArena Math1455—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#31), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond91.7%27.6%
SimpleQA Verified52.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.6%—
LMArena Expert1464—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.4 (#45), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1439—
LMArena Chinese1486—
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1458—
LMArena Japanese1445—
LMArena Korean1447—
LMArena Russian1453—
LMArena Spanish1458—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.1 (#47), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1448—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#51), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
CL-bench Life13.5%—
LMArena Longer Query1458—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.5 (#46), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Prophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1451—
LMArena Creative Writing1446—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1553—
EQ-Bench 41166—
LMArena Multi-Turn1467—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than phi-3-medium 14B?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.4 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Pro and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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