Model comparison

Laguna M.1 vs Phi-4

Laguna M.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Laguna M.1 Poolside

31.9

Rank #252 Reported

Phi-4 Microsoft

30.9

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Laguna M.1 leads 21.9 to 17.0.
  • Laguna M.1 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Laguna M.1 and Phi-4 specifications
Laguna M.1Phi-4
ProviderPoolsideMicrosoft
Noometry Index31.930.9
Released2026-04-282024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K128K
Max output33K4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked337

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Category by category

Coding Laguna M.1 leads

Laguna M.1: 36.4 (#195), Phi-4: 33.8 (#237)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
LMArena WebDev1348—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
LMArena Coding—1231
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Phi-4: 22.6 (#120)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Laguna M.1 leads

Laguna M.1: 21.9 (#187), Phi-4: 17.0 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1220
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
Surface Evolver Bench15.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.43
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Too close to call

Laguna M.1: 20.3 (#276), Phi-4: 19.6 (#279)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
ProofBench0%—
LiveBench Math—42%
LMArena Math—1246
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Phi-4: 32.5 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
LMArena Expert—1203
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Phi-4: 37.4 (#232)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
LMArena Non-English—1197
LMArena Chinese—1211
LMArena French—1223
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Russian—1209
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Phi-4: 60.6 (#246)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1201

Long Context Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#221)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
LMArena Longer Query—1217

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Laguna M.1: —, Phi-4: 40.7 (#239)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLaguna M.1Phi-4
LMArena Text—1217
LMArena Creative Writing—1182
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1206
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Laguna M.1 better than Phi-4?

Laguna M.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Laguna M.1 or Phi-4 better for coding?

Laguna M.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.4 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Laguna M.1 does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Laguna M.1 and Phi-4 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Laguna M.1 has 3 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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