Model comparison
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Phi-4
Phi-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#269); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Phi-4 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 33.8.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2024-05-07 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.07 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.14 |
| Results tracked | 10 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141), Phi-4: 33.8 (#237)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | 45.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | 55.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1231 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Phi-4: 22.6 (#120)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.8% |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Phi-4: 17.0 (#287)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.78 | 130.43 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 47.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1220 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 45.2% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 41.6% |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Phi-4: 19.6 (#279)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 13.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1246 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 64.9% |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Phi-4: 32.5 (#204)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 78.4% | 84.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 29.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1203 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Phi-4: 37.4 (#232)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-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
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Phi-4: 60.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1201 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#221)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1217 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Phi-4: 40.7 (#239)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Phi-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 DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Phi-4?
Phi-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#269); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Phi-4 better for coding?
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Phi-4 share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.