Model comparison
GPT-5.5 vs phi-3-medium 14B
GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 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-5.5 leads 64.4 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94% for GPT-5.5 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-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 63.4 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2026-04-23 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $30 | — |
| Results tracked | 71 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.6% | — |
| DeepSWE | 67% | — |
| FrontierCode | 43% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1513 | — |
| SciCode | 56.1% | — |
| GSO | 40.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 84.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1494 | — |
| MirrorCode | 10% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,943 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 84.7% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 55.1% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 13% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 6.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 44.6% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 27.2% | — |
| ExploitBench | 47.4% | — |
| GBAEval | 53.2% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 26% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1242 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 7,524 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.1 | 121.23 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 85% | — |
| SimpleBench | 69% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 96.2% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 95% | — |
| CritPt | 27.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 54% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 34.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1489 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 56% | — |
| DTBench | 96% | — |
| LMCA | 54.3% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 88.1% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 85.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 72.5% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 94.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1486 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 51.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 94% | 27.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 63% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1508 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1297 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 36.2% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 44.2% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1486 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1467 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1533 | — |
| LMArena French | 1486 | — |
| LMArena German | 1480 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1498 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1460 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1473 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1468 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1479 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench Life | 22.2% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1484 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1472 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1455 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1844 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1315 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1476 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5.5 better than phi-3-medium 14B?
GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-5.5 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and phi-3-medium 14B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.