Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Terra vs Phi-1.5

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#17); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI

59.2

Rank #17 Confirmed

Phi-1.5 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Phi-1.5 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Terra and Phi-1.5 specifications
GPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index59.2—
Released2026-07-092023-09-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$12—
Results tracked527

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 57.7 (#19), Phi-1.5: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
DeepSWE69.6%—
FrontierCode41.3%—
CursorBench41.3%—
LMArena WebDev1522—
SciCode55%—
WeirdML78.3%—
LMArena Coding1484—
ALE-Bench1,951—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 40.1 (#25), Phi-1.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
APEX-Agents58.2%—
BALROG53.2%—
GDP.pdf24.7%—
Vending-Bench 27,343—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 60.7 (#21), Phi-1.5: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
Epoch Capabilities Index159.6291.53
ARC-AGI-283.9%—
SimpleBench48.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark51.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)78.4%—
ARC-AGI-196.5%—
CritPt30%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1468—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
DTBench93.3%—
LMCA55%—
Surface Evolver Bench83.8%—
HellaSwag—47.6%
WinoGrande—73.4%

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 81.6 (#12), Phi-1.5: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)86%—
FrontierMath Tier 470.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.7%—
ProofBench74%—
LMArena Math1466—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 61.2 (#30), Phi-1.5: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
GPQA Diamond93.3%—
SimpleQA Verified43.2%—
LMArena Expert1492—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—44.4%
BoolQ—75.8%
MMLU—37.6%
OpenBookQA—37.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 47.3 (#11), Phi-1.5: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
LMArena Vision1271—
Blueprint-Bench 230.8%—
Furniture Assembly54.2%—
LMArena Document1472—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 54.4 (#44), Phi-1.5: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
LMArena Non-English1439—
LMArena Chinese1513—
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1460—
LMArena Japanese1457—
LMArena Korean1425—
LMArena Russian1450—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 76.4 (#40), Phi-1.5: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
LMArena Instruction Following1454—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 44.4 (#68), Phi-1.5: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
LMArena Longer Query1451—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 70.2 (#23), Phi-1.5: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraPhi-1.5
LMArena Text1447—
LMArena Creative Writing1410—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1855—
EQ-Bench 41234—
LMArena Multi-Turn1449—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Terra better than Phi-1.5?

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#17); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Terra and Phi-1.5 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Terra has 52 scored results on Noometry and Phi-1.5 has 7.

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