Model comparison

o3-mini vs Phi-3.5-MoE

o3-mini has enough public results to be ranked (#212); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

o3-mini OpenAI

36.7

Rank #212 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-MoE Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • Phi-3.5-MoE has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o3-mini and Phi-3.5-MoE specifications
o3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index36.7—
Released2024-12-202024-08-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output100K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.10—
Output $ / M tokens$4.40—
Results tracked513

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

o3-mini: 40.8 (#132), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
Aider Polyglot60.4%—
SciCode39.8%—
GSO1.3%—
WeirdML43.7%—
LiveBench Coding82.7%—
LMArena Coding1378—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o3-mini: 29.6 (#84), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
Cybench22.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

o3-mini: 16.3 (#305), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
ARC-AGI-23%—
SimpleBench22.8%—
ARC-AGI-134.5%—
CritPt0.3%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
LiveBench Reasoning89.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1366—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis70.6%—
LMCA19%—
Epoch Capabilities Index140.34—
ForecastBench59.6—
LiveBench75.9%—
PIQA—88.6%

Math Not comparable

o3-mini: 28.1 (#244), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)18.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 40%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202576.9%—
LiveBench Math77.3%—
LMArena Math1396—
MATH Level 596.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)12.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—88.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

o3-mini: 38.3 (#146), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
GPQA Diamond77%—
SimpleQA Verified15.3%—
Confabulations17.9%—
LMArena Expert1364—
BoolQ—84.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

o3-mini: 45.7 (#164), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
LMArena Non-English1319—
LMArena Chinese1379—
LMArena French1334—
LMArena German1303—
LMArena Japanese1286—
LMArena Korean1314—
LMArena Russian1304—
LMArena Spanish1321—

Instruction Following Not comparable

o3-mini: 75.1 (#72), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
LiveBench Instruction Following84.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1337—

Long Context Not comparable

o3-mini: 33.8 (#256), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
Fiction.LiveBench50%—
LMArena Longer Query1343—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

o3-mini: 50.3 (#182), Phi-3.5-MoE: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarko3-miniPhi-3.5-MoE
LMArena Text1337—
LMArena Creative Writing1286—
Short-Story Creative Writing61.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1320—
LiveBench Language50.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o3-mini better than Phi-3.5-MoE?

o3-mini has enough public results to be ranked (#212); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do o3-mini and Phi-3.5-MoE share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3-mini has 51 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-MoE has 3.

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