Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

GPT-4o and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.6 vs 27.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 5 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4o leads 52.6 to 27.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 47.6% for GPT-4o and 9.2% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
GPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index28.627.9
Released2024-05-132024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7235

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Category by category

Coding Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Coding51.4%15.5%
LMArena Coding12971093
HumanEval+87.2%59.1%
MBPP+72.2%54.2%
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Chess Puzzles13%0%
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%26.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts12811072
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%34.7%
LiveBench55.3%22.4%
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LMCA16.6%—
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
HellaSwag—76.7%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Math49.5%15.7%
LMArena Math12851111
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Too close to call

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert12501045
MMLU88.1%68.8%
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12831021
LMArena Chinese12771021
LMArena French13041076
LMArena German12821044
LMArena Japanese1257935
LMArena Korean1234905
LMArena Russian12861022
LMArena Spanish12921085

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%39.1%
LMArena Instruction Following12781053
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12891044
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text13001073
LMArena Creative Writing12921037
LMArena Multi-Turn13021018
LiveBench Language47.6%9.2%
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

GPT-4o and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.6 vs 27.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4o or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 26.6 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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