Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs phi-3-mini 3.8B

GPT-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#31); phi-3-mini 3.8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #31 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and phi-3-mini 3.8B specifications
GPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.1—
Released2025-12-11—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked671

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 52.2 (#32), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1415—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
WeirdML72.2%—
LMArena Coding1447—
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 40.0 (#24), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 50.1 (#33), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45117.23
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
SimpleBench45.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1445—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA43.9%—
ForecastBench60.1—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 59.8 (#32), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 59.2 (#29), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
GPQA Diamond91.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—
LMArena Expert1445—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 50.9 (#7), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 53.6 (#63), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Non-English1425—
LMArena Chinese1460—
LMArena French1456—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1421—
LMArena Korean1390—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1433—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 74.9 (#83), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Instruction Following1417—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#74), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
CL-bench18.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1428—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 67.0 (#30), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2phi-3-mini 3.8B
LMArena Text1439—
LMArena Creative Writing1402—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—
LMArena Multi-Turn1458—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than phi-3-mini 3.8B?

GPT-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#31); phi-3-mini 3.8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and phi-3-mini 3.8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-mini 3.8B has 1.

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