Noometry

Model comparison

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs phi-3-medium 14B

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek

52.8

Rank #38 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads 57.9 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 89.8% for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index52.829.7
Released2026-09-092024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M—
Max output393K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked3713

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 52.9 (#32), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena WebDev1619—
SciCode51.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1506—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,092—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 31.2 (#69), phi-3-medium 14B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
APEX-Agents39.5%—
GDP.pdf19.8%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 50.2 (#36), phi-3-medium 14B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index154.9121.23
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%—
CritPt14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1483—
Mystery Game Puzzles43%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA47%—
Surface Evolver Bench46.3%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 66.7 (#25), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)67.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%—
ProofBench54%—
LMArena Math1477—
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 57.9 (#38), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond89.8%27.6%
LMArena Expert1506—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 39.1 (#61), phi-3-medium 14B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1277—
Furniture Assembly34.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 55.0 (#35), phi-3-medium 14B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1448—
LMArena Chinese1497—
LMArena French1452—
LMArena German1484—
LMArena Japanese1412—
LMArena Korean1452—
LMArena Russian1471—
LMArena Spanish1459—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 77.3 (#26), phi-3-medium 14B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1474—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 45.2 (#47), phi-3-medium 14B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 65.4 (#48), phi-3-medium 14B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1462—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1540—
LMArena Multi-Turn1457—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than phi-3-medium 14B?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.8 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.9 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has 37 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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