Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Phi-2

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#215); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.7

Rank #215 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and Phi-2 specifications
GPT-4.1Phi-2
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index35.7—
Released2025-04-142023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked5211

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 34.2 (#228), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%—
Aider Polyglot52.4%—
WeirdML39%—
LMArena Coding1391—
CadEval42%—
ALE-Bench558.1—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#40), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#334), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index136.79107.62
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
SimpleBench27%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1384—
DTBench68.3%—
LMCA25.6%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
ForecastBench61.5—
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 21.4 (#269), Phi-2: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 37.0 (#152), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
GPQA Diamond66.9%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%—
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—
LMArena Expert1364—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 37.5 (#66), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench72%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 49.6 (#128), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
LMArena Non-English1370—
LMArena Chinese1382—
LMArena French1383—
LMArena German1380—
LMArena Japanese1320—
LMArena Korean1339—
LMArena Russian1377—
LMArena Spanish1375—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 71.5 (#148), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
IFEval83.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#158), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1385—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 57.8 (#120), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-2
LMArena Text1383—
LMArena Creative Writing1363—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420—
WildBench85.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1398—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Phi-2?

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#215); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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