Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Phi-3.5-mini

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#219); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
GPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index35.936.9
Released2025-04-142024-08-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$8—
Results tracked525

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%—
Aider Polyglot52.4%—
WeirdML39%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LMArena Coding1391—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%
CadEval42%—
ALE-Bench558.1—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
ARC-AGI-20.4%—
SimpleBench27%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%—
ARC-AGI-15.5%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
EnigmaEval2.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1384—
DTBench68.3%—
LMCA25.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index136.78—
ForecastBench61.5—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202538.3%—
Omni-MATH47.1%—
LMArena Math1370—
MATH Level 583%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond66.9%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
MMLU-Pro81.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%—
GPQA (HELM)65.9%—
LMArena Expert1364—
BoolQ—78%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Vision1211—
GeoBench72%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1370—
LMArena Chinese1382—
LMArena French1382—
LMArena German1381—
LMArena Japanese1319—
LMArena Korean1339—
LMArena Russian1377—
LMArena Spanish1376—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
IFEval83.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1367—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—
LMArena Longer Query1385—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1383—
LMArena Creative Writing1363—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420—
WildBench85.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1398—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Phi-3.5-mini?

GPT-4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#219); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is GPT-4.1 or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.4 vs 34.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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