Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct

GPT-4 Turbo and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct Microsoft

29.7

Rank #305 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 5 categories and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads 31.6 to 9.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 48.2% for GPT-4 Turbo and 29.6% for Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct.
  • Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 Turbo and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct specifications
GPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.529.7
Released2023-11-062024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$30—
Results tracked3619

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%29.6%
LMArena Coding12681039
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%40.6%
WeirdML18%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
METR Time Horizons36.7%—

Reasoning Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12511028
SimpleBench25.1%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA9.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25—
ForecastBench59.4—

Math Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Math12721089
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%—
MATH Level 546.7%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Expert1223984
GPQA Diamond46.6%—
Confabulations28.4%—
MMLU81.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Vision1090—

Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12451000
LMArena Chinese12421016
LMArena French12761039
LMArena German12591006
LMArena Japanese1194899
LMArena Korean1187856
LMArena Russian12591004
LMArena Spanish12601059

Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12491023

Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1254996

Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
LMArena Text12721050
LMArena Creative Writing12691024
LMArena Multi-Turn1267989

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?

GPT-4 Turbo and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4 Turbo or Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct better for coding?

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 28.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.

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