Model comparison

GPT-5.2 Codex vs phi-3-medium 14B

GPT-5.2 Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.6 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 Codex OpenAI

42.6

Rank #111 Reported

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-5.2 Codex leads 45.5 to 36.8.
  • phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 Codex and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
GPT-5.2 Codexphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index42.629.7
Released2025-12-182024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked513

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 Codex leads

GPT-5.2 Codex: 45.5 (#71), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 Codexphi-3-medium 14B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1339—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,300—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: 41.0 (#22), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 Codexphi-3-medium 14B
Terminal-Bench66.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 Codexphi-3-medium 14B
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—121.23
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 Codexphi-3-medium 14B
MATH Level 5—17.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 Codexphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond—27.6%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 Codex better than phi-3-medium 14B?

GPT-5.2 Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.6 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 Codex or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

GPT-5.2 Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.5 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 Codex and phi-3-medium 14B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 Codex has 5 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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