Model comparison

o1-mini vs Phi-4

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 8 categories and Phi-4 in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 35.4 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 46.9% for o1-mini and 13.8% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1-mini and Phi-4 specifications
o1-miniPhi-4
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index34.031.2
Released2024-09-122024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked3937

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Category by category

Coding o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 35.5 (#224), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
LiveBench Coding48%30.7%
LMArena Coding13621231
Aider Polyglot32.9%—
WeirdML36.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+78.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 24.6 (#118), Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
Cybench10%—
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Phi-4 leads

o1-mini: 8.8 (#346), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
LiveBench Reasoning72.3%47.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13331220
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.82130.42
LiveBench57.8%41.6%
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench18.1%—
ARC-AGI-114%—
Chess Puzzles—1%

Math o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 35.4 (#186), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202546.9%13.8%
LiveBench Math62%42%
LMArena Math13581246
MATH Level 589.2%64.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 34.9 (#192), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
GPQA Diamond62.4%56.1%
Confabulations18.6%29.4%
LMArena Expert13161203
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 43.6 (#182), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
LMArena Non-English12891197
LMArena Chinese13141212
LMArena French12931224
LMArena German12781222
LMArena Japanese12451158
LMArena Korean12231151
LMArena Russian12831209
LMArena Spanish13031234

Instruction Following o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 66.7 (#206), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
LiveBench Instruction Following65.4%58.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13041201

Long Context o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 40.1 (#161), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query13201217

Writing & Preference o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 48.4 (#202), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko1-miniPhi-4
LMArena Text13171217
LMArena Creative Writing12441182
Short-Story Creative Writing64.9%62.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn13141206
LiveBench Language40.9%25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is o1-mini better than Phi-4?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.0 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is o1-mini or Phi-4 better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Phi-4 share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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