Model comparison

GPT-5.4 mini vs phi-3-medium 14B

GPT-5.4 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI

45.0

Rank #76 Confirmed

phi-3-medium 14B Microsoft

29.7

Rank #306 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 mini 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-5.4 mini leads 51.5 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 86.9% for GPT-5.4 mini 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-5.4 mini and phi-3-medium 14B specifications
GPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index45.029.7
Released2026-03-172024-04-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$4.50—
Results tracked4613

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 45.2 (#72), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
FrontierCode27%—
LMArena WebDev1397—
SciCode49.9%—
WeirdML60.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LMArena Coding1438—
BigCodeBench Complete—48.7%
ALE-Bench1,189—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 29.9 (#81), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
DeepResearch Bench36.3%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 30.4 (#85), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
Epoch Capabilities Index148.84121.23
ARC-AGI-218.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)61.8%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt10%—
Chess Puzzles24%—
Thematic Generalization61.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1424—
Mystery Game Puzzles11%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA40.8%—
Adversarial NLI—55.8%
BIG-Bench Hard—81.4%
ForecastBench57—
HellaSwag—82.4%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 45.5 (#75), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 49.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%—
ProofBench21%—
LMArena Math1419—
MATH Level 5—17.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)28.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge GPT-5.4 mini leads

GPT-5.4 mini: 51.5 (#67), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
GPQA Diamond86.9%27.6%
SimpleQA Verified29.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.5%—
LMArena Expert1435—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—91.6%
MMLU—78%
OpenBookQA—87.4%
TriviaQA—73.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 39.7 (#56), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Vision1245—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 51.9 (#96), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Non-English1405—
LMArena Chinese1446—
LMArena French1440—
LMArena German1409—
LMArena Japanese1374—
LMArena Korean1368—
LMArena Russian1417—
LMArena Spanish1405—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 74.1 (#102), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Instruction Following1405—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 43.0 (#112), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Longer Query1407—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.4 mini: 64.0 (#58), phi-3-medium 14B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 miniphi-3-medium 14B
LMArena Text1412—
LMArena Creative Writing1370—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1665—
LMArena Multi-Turn1429—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 mini better than phi-3-medium 14B?

GPT-5.4 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.4 mini or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

GPT-5.4 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.2 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 mini and phi-3-medium 14B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 mini has 46 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.

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