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Model comparison

GPT-4o mini vs Phi-4

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.5

Rank #343 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o mini scores higher in 4 categories and Phi-4 in 5 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi-4 leads 32.6 to 17.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 37.7% for GPT-4o mini and 56.1% for Phi-4.
  • Phi-4 is cheaper at $0.07 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.60 for GPT-4o mini.
  • Phi-4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o miniPhi-4
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index25.531.2
Released2024-07-182024-12-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output16K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.07
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.14
Results tracked6037

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Category by category

Coding Phi-4 leads

GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%45.5%
LiveBench Coding43.1%30.7%
LMArena Coding12901231
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%55.4%
Aider Polyglot3.6%—
WeirdML11.8%—
HumanEval+83.5%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101), Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
BALROG17.4%11.6%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%

Reasoning Phi-4 leads

GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
Chess Puzzles0%1%
LiveBench Reasoning32.8%47.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts12671220
LiveBench Data Analysis50%45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.56130.42
LiveBench41.3%41.6%
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench10.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
DTBench54.4%—
LMCA10.4%—
PIQA88.7%—

Math Phi-4 leads

GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.9%13.8%
LiveBench Math36.3%42%
LMArena Math12671246
MATH Level 552.6%64.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
Omni-MATH28%—
GSM8K91.3%—

Knowledge Phi-4 leads

GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
GPQA Diamond37.7%56.1%
Confabulations37.2%29.4%
LMArena Expert12351203
MMLU81.8%84.8%
SimpleQA Verified8.3%—
MMLU-Pro60.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
GPQA (HELM)36.8%—
BoolQ88.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122), Phi-4: —

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
LMArena Vision1066—
Video-MME64.8%—
GeoBench64%—
VPCT34%—

Multilingual GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
LMArena Non-English12661197
LMArena Chinese12651212
LMArena French12971224
LMArena German12721222
LMArena Japanese12161158
LMArena Korean11951151
LMArena Russian12751209
LMArena Spanish12761234

Instruction Following GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
LiveBench Instruction Following56.8%58.4%
LMArena Instruction Following12581201
IFEval78.2%—

Long Context GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query12891217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

BenchmarkGPT-4o miniPhi-4
LMArena Text12861217
LMArena Creative Writing12681182
Short-Story Creative Writing67.2%62.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn12851206
LiveBench Language28.6%25.6%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing873—
WildBench79.1%—

Frequently asked questions

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

Phi-4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.2 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o mini or Phi-4?

Phi-4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; GPT-4o mini lists at $0.15 and $0.60.

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

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

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

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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