Model comparison

GLM-4.7-Flash vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

GLM-4.7-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

GLM-4.7-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

38.8

Rank #180 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-4.7-Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where GLM-4.7-Flash leads 70.1 to 51.9.

Side by side

GLM-4.7-Flash and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
GLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Microsoft
Noometry Index38.829.3
Released2026-01-192024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window200K—
Max output131K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.06—
Output $ / M tokens$0.40—
Results tracked2132

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Category by category

Coding GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.6 (#135), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Coding13831101
LiveBench Coding—20.3%

Reasoning GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 20.9 (#229), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts13561100
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 36.1 (#173), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Math13551151
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202558.3%—
LiveBench Math—17.6%

Knowledge GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 35.5 (#184), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert13571067
GPQA Diamond60.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 46.5 (#158), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English13301058
LMArena Chinese14031061
LMArena French13321135
LMArena German13371080
LMArena Korean1283894
LMArena Russian13321111
LMArena Spanish13501111
LMArena Japanese—966

Instruction Following GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 70.1 (#167), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following13271087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%

Long Context GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 40.9 (#148), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13451088

Writing & Preference GLM-4.7-Flash leads

GLM-4.7-Flash: 47.4 (#210), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-4.7-FlashPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text13511110
LMArena Creative Writing12971083
LMArena Multi-Turn13421068
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1125—
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-4.7-Flash better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

GLM-4.7-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is GLM-4.7-Flash or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

GLM-4.7-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GLM-4.7-Flash and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-4.7-Flash has 21 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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