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Model comparison

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs phi-3-mini 3.8B

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#40); phi-3-mini 3.8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek

50.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

phi-3-mini 3.8B Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index50.3—
Released2026-09-09—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output393K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.15—
Output $ / M tokens$0.60—
Results tracked251

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 52.8 (#29), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena WebDev1620—
SciCode51.9%—
LMArena Coding1511—
ALE-Bench1,092—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 46.2 (#39), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
Epoch Capabilities Index155.01117.23
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%—
CritPt14.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA47%—
Surface Evolver Bench46.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 48.4 (#52), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
ProofBench54%—
LMArena Math1493—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 41.6 (#97), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Expert1505—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 55.5 (#29), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Non-English1452—
LMArena Chinese1506—
LMArena French1448—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1499—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 77.6 (#24), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Instruction Following1475—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 45.2 (#46), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Longer Query1476—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 65.8 (#43), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flashphi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Text1465—
LMArena Creative Writing1436—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1540—
LMArena Multi-Turn1460—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash better than phi-3-mini 3.8B?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#40); phi-3-mini 3.8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and phi-3-mini 3.8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has 25 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-mini 3.8B has 1.

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