Model comparison
GPT-4 Turbo vs Phi-4 Mini
GPT-4 Turbo and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Phi-4 Mini leads 22.4 to 15.3.
- Phi-4 Mini is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
- Phi-4 Mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2023-11-06 | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 4K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.075 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $30 | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 36 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 10.8% |
| WeirdML | 18% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: —, Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |
Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | — |
Math Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1272 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | — |
Knowledge Phi-4 Mini leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 23.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| MMLU | 81.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | — |
| LMArena French | 1276 | — |
| LMArena German | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Phi-4 Mini?
GPT-4 Turbo and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.5 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4 Turbo or Phi-4 Mini?
Phi-4 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.
Is GPT-4 Turbo or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?
GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Phi-4 Mini share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.