Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs Phi-3.5-mini

GPT-5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#47); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

48.8

Rank #47 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-5.1 leads 46.9 to 34.0.
  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
GPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index48.836.4
Released2025-11-132024-08-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked635

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 46.9 (#59), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
SWE-bench Verified68%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1395—
SciCode43.3%—
GSO13.7%—
WeirdML60.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LiveBench Coding72.5%—
LMArena Coding1454—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%
ALE-Bench1,192—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 32.5 (#55), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
LMArena Search1199—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 39.9 (#50), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
ARC-AGI-217.6%—
SimpleBench53.2%—
ARC-AGI-172.8%—
CritPt4.9%—
Chess Puzzles32%—
EnigmaEval11.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning95.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1457—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench90.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis72.1%—
LMCA43.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index149.66—
ForecastBench58.1—
LiveBench78.8%—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 50.3 (#45), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math94.5%—
LMArena Math1446—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 50.5 (#65), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond87.6%—
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—
LMArena Expert1470—
BoolQ—78%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 44.0 (#17), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Vision1250—
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 54.0 (#51), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1495—
LMArena French1451—
LMArena German1439—
LMArena Japanese1453—
LMArena Korean1401—
LMArena Russian1435—
LMArena Spanish1430—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 84.0 (#1), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%—
IFEval93.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1442—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1448—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 64.7 (#53), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1Phi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1427—
WildBench86.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1449—
LiveBench Language80.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than Phi-3.5-mini?

GPT-5.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#47); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is GPT-5.1 or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.9 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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