Model comparison

GPT-4o vs phi-3-medium 14B

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 1 category and phi-3-medium 14B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-4o leads 28.8 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 53.3% for GPT-4o and 17.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
GPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index28.629.7
Released2024-05-132024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7213

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%48.7%
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1297—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97121.23
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1281—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench57.7—
HellaSwag—82.4%
LiveBench55.3%—
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math phi-3-medium 14B leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 553.3%17.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
LMArena Math1285—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond49.2%27.6%
MMLU88.1%78%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
LMArena Expert1250—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1292—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—
LMArena Instruction Following1278—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1289—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4ophi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1300—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1302—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than phi-3-medium 14B?

phi-3-medium 14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.7 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and phi-3-medium 14B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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