Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Phi-2

GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#308); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

28.9

Rank #308 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 and Phi-2 specifications
GPT-4Phi-2
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index28.9—
Released2023-03-142023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked3811

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4: 31.2 (#277), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
HumanEval+79.3%45.1%
WeirdML12.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46%—
LMArena Coding1254—
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%—
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
METR Time Horizons36.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-4: 17.3 (#285), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%59.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index125.88107.62
HellaSwag95.3%53.6%
WinoGrande87.5%54.7%
Chess Puzzles4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1241—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench62.7%—
LMCA17.1%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
ForecastBench57.8—

Math Not comparable

GPT-4: 10.1 (#304), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 523%—
GSM8K92%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4: 18.4 (#277), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
MMLU86.4%58.4%
TriviaQA84.8%45.2%
GPQA Diamond35.7%—
LMArena Expert1211—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
OpenBookQA—73.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4: 40.8 (#210), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
LMArena Non-English1246—
LMArena Chinese1242—
LMArena French1282—
LMArena German1251—
LMArena Japanese1209—
LMArena Korean1184—
LMArena Russian1251—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4: 65.5 (#217), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
LMArena Instruction Following1241—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4: 37.7 (#207), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
LMArena Longer Query1244—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4: 35.0 (#263), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-2
LMArena Text1263—
LMArena Creative Writing1244—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—
LMArena Multi-Turn1257—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Phi-2?

GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#308); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Phi-2 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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