Model comparison

GPT-5.1 vs phi-3-medium 14B

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.1 OpenAI

49.0

Rank #53 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.1 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GPT-5.1 leads 50.6 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.6% for GPT-5.1 and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.1 and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
GPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index49.029.7
Released2025-11-132024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked6313

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 46.4 (#66), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified68%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66%—
LMArena WebDev1395—
SciCode43.3%—
GSO13.7%—
WeirdML60.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LiveBench Coding72.5%—
LMArena Coding1454—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,192—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 32.7 (#60), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench47.6%—
DeepResearch Bench42.8%—
LMArena Search1199—
Vending-Bench 21,473—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 39.8 (#58), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index149.64121.23
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%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench58.1—
HellaSwag—82.4%
LiveBench78.8%—
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 52.2 (#51), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.6%—
Omni-MATH46.4%—
LiveBench Math94.5%—
LMArena Math1447—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)31%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5.1 leads

GPT-5.1: 50.6 (#71), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond87.6%27.6%
Humanity's Last Exam23.7%—
SimpleQA Verified48%—
MMLU-Pro57.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)44.2%—
LMArena Expert1470—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 44.8 (#19), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1250—
VPCT58.7%—
LMArena Document1403—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 53.8 (#56), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1495—
LMArena French1450—
LMArena German1438—
LMArena Japanese1453—
LMArena Korean1401—
LMArena Russian1435—
LMArena Spanish1433—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 83.9 (#1), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
LiveBench Instruction Following93.3%—
IFEval93.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1443—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 47.6 (#14), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
CL-bench23.7%—
CL-bench Life17.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1447—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.1: 64.5 (#55), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.1phi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1427—
WildBench86.3%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1450—
LiveBench Language80.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.1 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

GPT-5.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.1 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

GPT-5.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.4 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.1 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.1 has 63 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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