Model comparison

Olmo 7b Instruct vs Phi-4

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.

Phi-4 Microsoft

30.9

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Olmo 7b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Phi-4 leads 40.7 to 26.0.

Side by side

Olmo 7b Instruct and Phi-4 specifications
Olmo 7b InstructPhi-4
ProviderAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)Microsoft
Noometry Index29.730.9
Released—2024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked1037

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Category by category

Coding Phi-4 leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.1 (#298), Phi-4: 33.8 (#237)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Coding10161231
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.5%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Phi-4: 22.6 (#120)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Too close to call

Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.0 (#273), Phi-4: 17.0 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts9931220
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.43
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 27.8 (#234), Phi-4: 19.6 (#279)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Math10181246
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Phi-4: 32.5 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
LMArena Expert—1203
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Phi-4 leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.1 (#286), Phi-4: 37.4 (#232)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Non-English9771197
LMArena Chinese10131211
LMArena Russian9461209
LMArena French—1223
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Phi-4 leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.3 (#296), Phi-4: 60.6 (#246)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following9781201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Not comparable

Olmo 7b Instruct: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#221)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query—1217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

Olmo 7b Instruct: 26.0 (#298), Phi-4: 40.7 (#239)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkOlmo 7b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Text10321217
LMArena Creative Writing9901182
LMArena Multi-Turn10071206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Olmo 7b Instruct better than Phi-4?

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Olmo 7b Instruct or Phi-4 better for coding?

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Olmo 7b Instruct and Phi-4 share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Olmo 7b Instruct has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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