Model comparison

Grok 4 Fast vs phi-3-medium 14B

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Grok 4 Fast scores higher in 2 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 4 Fast leads 32.0 to 9.1.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4 Fast and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
Grok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderxAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index39.429.7
Released2025-09-192024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3013

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Category by category

Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena WebDev1159—
WeirdML42.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1429—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
τ²-bench Banking15.7%—
Cybench30%—
LMArena Search1171—

Reasoning Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index144.2121.23
ARC-AGI-25.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark66.1%—
ARC-AGI-148.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1412—
DTBench82.7%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench60.5—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Math1419—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Grok 4 Fast leads

Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond—27.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate19.7%—
LMArena Expert1411—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1396—
LMArena Chinese1457—
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1383—
LMArena Japanese1352—
LMArena Korean1357—
LMArena Russian1389—
LMArena Spanish1415—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1387—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1415—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGrok 4 Fastphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1407—
LMArena Creative Writing1387—
LMArena Multi-Turn1414—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 Fast better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Grok 4 Fast is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 Fast or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 Fast and phi-3-medium 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Grok 4 Fast has 30 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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