Model comparison
GPT-5 Nano vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Nano scores higher in 7 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where GPT-5 Nano leads 75.2 to 48.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 27% for GPT-5 Nano and 0% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 27.4 |
| Released | 2025-08-07 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 400K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.05 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Results tracked | 48 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5 Nano leads
GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1351 | 1093 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 34.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 38.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| ALE-Bench | 718.67 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 21.8% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 51.5% | — |
Reasoning GPT-5 Nano leads
GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 27% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1329 | 1072 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 2.6% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 62.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 20.7% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 9% | — |
| DTBench | 62.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| LMCA | 7.9% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 139.39 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math GPT-5 Nano leads
GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1318 | 1111 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 20% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 81.1% | — |
| ProofBench | 12% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 54.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | 95.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 8.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5 Nano leads
GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1045 |
| GPQA Diamond | 69.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 11.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 67.9% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1159 | — |
| VPCT | 37.2% | — |
Multilingual GPT-5 Nano leads
GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1355 | 1021 |
| LMArena German | 1329 | 1044 |
| LMArena Korean | 1269 | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | 1296 | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1360 | 1084 |
| LMArena French | — | 1075 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 935 |
Instruction Following GPT-5 Nano leads
GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1306 | 1053 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
| IFEval | 93.2% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1313 | 1044 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-5 Nano leads
GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Nano | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1320 | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1250 | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1311 | 1018 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 705 | — |
| WildBench | 80.6% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5 Nano better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
GPT-5 Nano is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-5 Nano or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?
GPT-5 Nano scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.3 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Nano and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Nano has 48 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.