Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Luna vs Phi-2

GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI

54.6

Rank #30 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Luna and Phi-2 specifications
GPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index54.6—
Released2026-07-092023-12-12
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.20—
Output $ / M tokens$1.20—
Results tracked5211

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 54.5 (#28), Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
DeepSWE67.2%—
FrontierCode39.8%—
CursorBench35.9%—
LMArena WebDev1519—
SciCode53.6%—
WeirdML60.9%—
LMArena Coding1466—
ALE-Bench1,667—
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 34.4 (#45), Phi-2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
APEX-Agents43%—
BALROG45.6%—
GDP.pdf22.7%—
Vending-Bench 24,095—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.6 (#43), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
Epoch Capabilities Index156.39107.94
ARC-AGI-259.5%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark49.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.4%—
ARC-AGI-188%—
CritPt20.6%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1451—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA48.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench61.9%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.7 (#14), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)82.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 461%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%—
ProofBench60%—
LMArena Math1458—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.5 (#34), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
GPQA Diamond91.6%—
SimpleQA Verified41%—
LMArena Expert1478—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 42.7 (#28), Phi-2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
LMArena Vision1258—
Blueprint-Bench 222.6%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1457—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 52.8 (#78), Phi-2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
LMArena Non-English1417—
LMArena Chinese1470—
LMArena French1456—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1415—
LMArena Russian1428—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 75.6 (#57), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#82), Phi-2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
LMArena Longer Query1436—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.0 (#29), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaPhi-2
LMArena Text1431—
LMArena Creative Writing1396—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1829—
EQ-Bench 41156—
LMArena Multi-Turn1434—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Luna better than Phi-2?

GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Luna and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Luna has 52 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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