Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct Microsoft

33.0

Rank #250 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 4 categories and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads 33.4 to 10.6.
  • Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct specifications
GPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index28.633.0
Released2024-05-13—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7217

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Category by category

Coding Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 32.9 (#268)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Coding12971130
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 21.7 (#214)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12811127
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 33.4 (#202)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Math12851173
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
Omni-MATH29.3%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.2 (#229)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Expert12501108
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU-Pro71.3%—
Confabulations15.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%—
GPQA (HELM)52%—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 30.6 (#263)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12831094
LMArena Chinese12771108
LMArena French13041110
LMArena German12821101
LMArena Japanese12571042
LMArena Korean1234954
LMArena Russian12861145
LMArena Spanish12921095

Instruction Following GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 57.6 (#268)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12781113
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—
IFEval81.7%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.0 (#255)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12891120
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct: 34.1 (#272)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oPhi 3 Medium 4k Instruct
LMArena Text13001138
LMArena Creative Writing12921107
LMArena Multi-Turn13021088
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o or Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct better for coding?

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Medium 4k Instruct has 17.

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