Model comparison

GPT-4 vs Phi-3.5-mini

GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#316); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-3.5-mini in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.2% for GPT-4 and 38.5% for Phi-3.5-mini.
  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
GPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.136.9
Released2023-03-142024-08-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window8K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$60—
Results tracked385

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

GPT-4: 31.6 (#283), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
BigCodeBench Instruct46%32.8%
BigCodeBench Complete57.2%38.5%
WeirdML12.4%—
LMArena Coding1254—
HumanEval+79.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4: —, Phi-3.5-mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
METR Time Horizons36.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-4: 17.8 (#289), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
Chess Puzzles4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1241—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench62.7%—
LMCA17.1%—
BIG-Bench Hard75.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index125.89—
ForecastBench57.8—
HellaSwag95.3%—
PIQA—81%
WinoGrande87.5%—

Math Not comparable

GPT-4: 10.8 (#309), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
GSM8K92%86.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.1%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 523%—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4: 18.4 (#282), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond35.7%—
LMArena Expert1211—
BoolQ—78%
MMLU86.4%—
TriviaQA84.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4: 40.6 (#215), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1246—
LMArena Chinese1242—
LMArena French1283—
LMArena German1251—
LMArena Japanese1209—
LMArena Korean1184—
LMArena Russian1251—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4: 65.3 (#222), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Instruction Following1241—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4: 37.7 (#212), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1244—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4: 34.9 (#268), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1263—
LMArena Creative Writing1244—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing752—
LMArena Multi-Turn1257—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 better than Phi-3.5-mini?

GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#316); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is GPT-4 or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 and Phi-3.5-mini share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 has 38 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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