Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct Microsoft

27.9

Rank #328 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 6 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4 Turbo leads 47.7 to 27.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 6% for GPT-4 Turbo and 0% for Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct.
  • Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 Turbo and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct specifications
GPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.527.9
Released2023-11-062024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$10—
Output $ / M tokens$30—
Results tracked3635

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding12681093
HumanEval+86.6%59.1%
MBPP+73.3%54.2%
WeirdML18%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
LiveBench Coding—15.5%
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

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

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

Reasoning GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Chess Puzzles6%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts12511072
SimpleBench25.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning—26.8%
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—34.7%
LMCA9.8%—
Adversarial NLI—52.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—71.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25—
ForecastBench59.4—
HellaSwag—76.7%
LiveBench—22.4%
WinoGrande—70.8%

Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Math12721111
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%—
LiveBench Math—15.7%
MATH Level 546.7%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert12231045
MMLU81.3%68.8%
GPQA Diamond46.6%—
Confabulations28.4%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—84.9%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—64%

Multimodal Not comparable

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

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

Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12451021
LMArena Chinese12421021
LMArena French12761076
LMArena German12591044
LMArena Japanese1194935
LMArena Korean1187905
LMArena Russian12591022
LMArena Spanish12601085

Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12491053
LiveBench Instruction Following—39.1%

Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12541044

Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboPhi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
LMArena Text12721073
LMArena Creative Writing12691037
LMArena Multi-Turn12671018
LiveBench Language—9.2%

Frequently asked questions

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

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.

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