Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs phi-3-medium 14B

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 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 GPT-5.2 leads 59.3 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 91.4% for GPT-5.2 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
GPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.129.7
Released2025-12-112024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked6713

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1416—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
WeirdML72.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1447—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45121.23
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
SimpleBench45.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1445—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA43.9%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench60.1—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond91.4%27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—
LMArena Expert1445—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1425—
LMArena Chinese1460—
LMArena French1455—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1420—
LMArena Korean1392—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1433—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1417—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
CL-bench18.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1428—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1439—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—
LMArena Multi-Turn1458—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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